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their long journey home. we can report glimmers at least of progress in the investigation of malaysia airlines flight mh-17 at this hour. >> rebels have handed over the black box data recorders. one man says he believes it are will reveal the truth of what happened to the airliner. meanwhile, from donetsk to eastern ukraine are the bodies heading and from there they will be flown to amsterdam. the rebels originally resisted returning the bodies causing international outrage. the measure did not place blame, though. the u.s. delegate had strong words for russia. >> we welcome russia's support
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for resolution or on friday or on saturday or even yesterday and it turns out that president p putin issued a public call to ensure the safety of international experts. >> well, of the 298 people on board the airliner, 193 were dutch. on monday, the dutch prime minister met with relatives of the victims. erin mclaughlin is live in amsterdam with the latest. erin? >> reporter: hi, amara. i'm outside of the airport in amsterdam. the memorial is growing by the day. people from all around the world are coming here.
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as early as 6:00 in the morning this morning to lay flowers and candles and notes. they are also signing a book of condolences just over that way. people are grieving and the families are suffering such tremendous loss. i talked to one family that is really struggling to come to terms with what happened. a mother's regret. >> if i could just turn back time, you know. i didn't listen to him. i don't know. i have no words to say. >> reporter: samir's three boys were setting out on a fun-filled holiday to the other side of the world. but the youngest, miguel, was nervous. >> my youngest son, he came to me and then after answering for the passport he came back, run
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to me and said, mama, i love you, i'm happy to see oma but i'm going to miss you and what happened when the plane will crash. i said, come on, don't be silly. you've been traveling already so many times. everything's going to be okay. >> reporter: miguel and shaka were on their way to meet their grandma in bali. there other brother had to catch another flight because mh-17 was fully booked. >> and their big brother volunteered to go first with your little brother? >> yes. uh-huh. >> reporter: from all over the world, the family has come together. they are struggling to make sense of it all. >> everybody is crying. everybody is losing something that belonged to them but we feel like we have lost ourselves as well. why didn't they take my life?
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they still young. they still have a future. why? why the children? why not me? >> how are you going to remember them? >> it feels like they are already one with me now, the bond i have with them. it's just -- they are my best friends. they are my brothers and i feel like they are going to watch over me forever. >> reporter: there are so many grieving families here today in the netherlands. the prime minister has said this country's number one priority is the identification of the victims and the repatriation of the bodies. he says and acknowledges that it has been a slow and painstaking process. dutch officials have had to check and double-check that things are happening as expected. it's seen as a sign of progress that the bodies are on board
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those trains making their way to kharkiv. amara? >> we heard the dutch prime minister using words to describe how this crash site has been treated by the pro-russian separatists. erin mclaughlin, i appreciate the update there from amsterdam. it is just after 8:00 a.m. in gaza and jerusalem and what could be another bloody day in the israel/slahamas conflict. about an hour ago, a huge plume of smoke rose into the sky after an apparent air strike. several other large explosions followed. >> on the diplomatic side,
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secretary of state kerry arrived there joined by ban ki-moon. kerry will try to once again broker a cease-fire. >> but the death toll keeps rising. 583 palestinians killed, most of them civilians. 27 israeli soldiers and three israeli citizens have also died. now, israel says it will not waiver on its stated mission to enter the area. this is it an uptick from what we've seen in previous clashes? >> hello, errol. we had a brief from the military and one of the fiercest fighting
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is taking place he between gaza and hamas militants is in and around the area of tunnels. they say hamas is trying to protect those tunnels and, of course, israel is trying to destroy them. these tums have only one purpose and that is to carry out terrorist attacks. >> reporter: now spilling the war out of gaza into israel, tunnels. early monday, israel defense forces say two terrorist squads of hamas militants used tunnels, possibly intending to launch an attack on civilians. this israeli military video shows five of those hamas
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fighters first crouching in the brush and then firing on nearby israel soldiers. at one point, one of the men can be seen reloading. then, as the israelis return fire, the militants retreat back to their tunnel when an israeli air strike hits. the incident forced area roads to close and residents to shelter in their homes and tied up security forces for hours. ten hamas militants were killed and a number of israeli soldiers wounded. inside gaza, a well-organized and deeply entrenched network of tunnels has hammered israeli movement, allowing militants to turn up before dropping back out of sight. israeli military officials refer to the underground work as lower gaza and some of the war is being waged underground. so far, israel says it has discovered 14 tunnels, each with multiple access points. engineers worked to destroy them
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using heavy earth-moving equipment or explosives. israel believes there are many more tunnels yet to be found and as soldiers battle through gaza streets, another danger lurks just beneath their feet. there is another tack tif that tactic that the idf says they are doing now and that is using israeli uniforms. one where in these terror attacks that they have attempted to carry out on israel, to confuse the civilian population here and then the other times is inside gaza itself and they say that is designed to try to confuse israeli troops and they are seeing it more and more. errol. >> martin savidge live for us in jerusalem, thank you. we're seeing the death toll rise. more than 3600 people have been wounded in gaza just over the past two weeks alone. many have flocked to local hospitals where supplies along
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with safety and security are in very short supply. ben wedeman has more. >> increasingly, hospitals are also being hit south of here in the town a hospital was hit by a projectile of some kind on the third floor one patient was killed and four people who were visited were killed as well. now, the israel auto see army told us that nearby in the immediate vicinity there was a cache of rockets. just up the street a few hours ago a building was hit, several floors collapsed, 11 people killed, four of them children, more than 40 wounded. they were rushed to the hospital but the hospitals are running out of medicine, running out of supplies and increasingly, of course, the medical staff are exhausted. this has been going on for days now. and it's intensified dramatically since israel began
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its ground invasion. the situation is getting increasingly dire. resources stretched, energy stretched, people exhausted, many people running away from their homes, of course. the u.n. says that more than 80,000 people have sought refuge in 62 schools. u.n. schools. those schools are now packed to the gills. our ben wedeman there reporting from gaza. the u.s. government says it has proof of how flight mh-17 was brought down. we'll tell you why the pentagon says its evidence points to moscow. and later in the program, anti-missile technology is out there. why not equip commercial airliners with it? we'll look at some of the available technology after this. this is kathleen. setting up the perfect wedding day begins with arthritis pain and two pills. afternoon arrives and feeling good, but her knee pain returns... that's two more pills. the evening's event brings laughter, joy, and more pain...
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victims of the mm-17 crash. >> one father mourning the death of his only child wrote an open letter to president putin and the letter begins, thank you very much, mr. putin, leaders of the separatists of the ukraine government for murdering my loved and only child. hans went on to outline his 17-year-old daughter's plans for the future, to take exams with her friends, to study engineering at university. the letter went viral. his signature conveys his heartbreak. the letter is signed, whose life is ruined. >> and if you've been checking your twitter profile later, you may have noticed that many in the netherlands are making a statement on various social media outlets by changing their avatars to a simple black
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square. they are using the #bringthemhome. 193 of the victims are from the netherlands. one, for example, from linda reads, "out of respect to all victims, my pic will remain black until all are returned home to their country of origin." and join the dutch in their cause. >> ukrainian president petro poroshenko left the country for only six weeks and it's a time when issues in russia continue to escalate. he spoke with christiane amanpour and says that the downing of flight mh-17 is the
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worst terrorist attack in history. >> if ever this tragedy we should demonstrate the same way of reaction. this is a danger for a whole world. this is a danger for the global security. and this is not just a question -- let's not demonstrate. we are talking about some conflict inside ukraine. ukraine as a nation now are united. this is, again, the danger for the global security and the global world should find out and the right answer to these challenges, no doubt about that. >> but mr. president, you want -- >> people should feel how danger it is. >> i understand what you're
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saying. i just want to make sure that i understand specifically, more leaders seem to be much more united in speaking with much more unified voice than they may have done in the past. are sanctions going to do it? is that what you are looking for? >> look, we should use other methods just to de-escalate the situation. if sanctions will help that, we should introduce new sanctions. we should understand that we should activi effectively to st the danger for the global security. ukrainian army do their best and we introduce significant progress, shrinking of -- shortening two times the anti-terroristic operation. i as a president presented the peace plan. we declared the unilateral cease-fire for seven days and then continue for three more
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days but every single day of this cease-fire my country lost from 3 to 19 soldiers, every day. we have more than 1,000 wounded. and this is a very high price for solving the conflict but i am absolutely sure that our actions should be effective and we should be together using all of the opportunities, starting from the u.n. security council, from the european union council, malaysia, as demonstrated today and i think ukrainian people was never so united as today and the global world was never so united as today. again, every country, including russia, should find out and make a decision where they play in this world, together with the terrorists or together with the civilized world. >> now, many u.s. politicians
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flight 17 has caused controversy about equipping planes with certain technology. >> dealing with the type of weapon suspected of bringing down flight 17, that's a whole different story. >> reporter: a commercial plane shot out of the sky. now renewed support for finding a way to protect commercial flights with technology similar to that on u.s. military planes. there are options but almost all are designed to stop shoulder-fired missiles, like the one that took down this dhl flight over baghdad in 2003. one option, flares, or what is called chaf, tiny aluminum that tricks the missile's radar temporarily. >> the chaf will surround the area of the wing or the aircraft as the aircraft flies away
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diverting the missile. the other simple design used to be called flare. and just like a road flare, it produces some heat source and you shoot that off somewhere away from the aircraft. >> reporter: there are also new high-tech options. this one from defense contractor called the garnim. >> the senses automatically direct it and the system jams the missile and drives it away from the aircraft. >> reporter: systems like this are already in use on planes flown by israel's airline. >> in israel today, one of the homegrown defense contractors outfitted their fleet with count countermeasures to deal with the shoulder-type missiles. >> reporter: but when it comes
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to the advanced surface-to-air missiles, the technology just isn't there yet. u.s. senator mark kurt is calling for action, asking the faa to study the feasibility, cost, and time frame to install countermeasures to could defend against surface-to-air missiles. after 9/11, he added, the department of homeland security spent $276 million studying away commercial airlines could be protected against shoulder-fired missiles. >> it's an available technology but why don't we put them on today? it's the cost. >> reporter: but when it comes do evading surface-to-air missiles, all of the experts agree, the only sure-fire way to avoid that kind of missile strike is for commercial flights to avoid flying over conflict zones altogether.
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sara sidner, cnn, los angeles. us sector retary of state i back in cairo. we'll bring you details on that after the break. plus, bill clinton sits down with cnn. what the former u.s. president has to say about israel's ground operation in gaza. narrator: these are the skater kid: whoa narrator: that got torture tested by teenagers and cried out for help. from the surprised designers. who came to the rescue with a brilliant fix male designer: i love it narrator: which created thousands of new customers for the tennis shoes that got torture tested by teenagers. the internet of everything is changing manufacturing. is your network ready? it's the trusted resource. and now, kbb.com has a whole new way to help you decide
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kharkiv in eastern ukraine. separatists resisted earlier calls to return the bodies. the remains are being stored in refrigerated rail cars. the death toll is rising on both sides of the israel/hamas conflict. black smoke filled gaza city. 583 palestinians killed, most of them civilians. 27 israeli u.s. secretary john kerry is in cairo trying to call for a cease-fire. this time, kerry is joined by secretary general ban ki-moon. he's expected to meet with top egyptian officials today. and a huge explosion in gaza city. >> and the key question is, can
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he forge a breakthrough. elise labott looks at kerry's delicate diplomacy. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry arrived in cairo today to renew cease-fire talks. today, the president stood by israel's right to defend itself but warned the situation is spiralling out of control. >> we have serious concerns about the rising number of palestinian civilian deaths and the loss of israeli lives. and that is why it now has to be our focus and the focus of the international community to bring about a cease-fire that ends the fighting and that can stop the deaths of innocent civilians. >> reporter: on both sides, the grim task of burying the dead. the violence now entering its third week, claimed 20 israeli soldier lives in the last 48
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hours. more than 500 palestinians dead. many are used by hamas as human shields. the u.n. and gaza say more than 100,000 palestinians have fled their home and are seeking refuge with them. secretary of state kerry was caught talking on a mike with an aide. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> no country, no human being is comfortable with children being killed, people being ill canned. but we're not comfortable with israeli soldiers being killed either or people being rocketed in israel. >> reporter: israel has agreed to an egyptian cease-fire proposal if hamas stops firing but they won't agree to
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anything. >> they must show up and have an offer of cease-fire and then we'll discuss all of the issues relevant to the underlying crisis. >> qatar has emerged as a new and key figure in this effort. living in the capital of doh aca, he met with president abbas. this, as the u.s. announced $47 million to address the growing humanitarian crisis in gaza. elise labott, cnn, washington. former u.s. president spoke with cnn about his thoughts on the crisis facing israel and gaza and he explained what is needed to resolve the conflict. >> it was part of a wide-ranging interview that he did with anna
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coren. >> israel launched a ground offensive in gaza and you said that israel is isolating itself from world opinion by failing to clench a peace deal with the palestinians. this is a conflict that you weren't able to resolve when you were in office. what makes you think that it's possible now? >> well, i think it's possible because you get tired of dolg the same thing over and over again and getting the same result. it's crazy. but i think that -- and i hope that this will be to everybody doing a little soul searching and trying to get back to the baseline issue of a peace agreement. now, with hamas involved, it raises a different issue, which is that there's no way that they are going to give up the west bank and a greater stake unless hamas gives up violence.
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they won't do it and that's sort of a nonstarter. and i think it should be. that is, i think you can't just have a one-way truce. both sides have to give up what the other side most objects to. >> do you see that happening any time soon? >> i don't see it but i feel that it could happen. i know that prime minister netanyahu could make a peace that the majority of israelis would support. they have said over and over again, if he says that this is good for their security, they would support it. >> reporter: president clinton is traveling through southeast asia on his way to australia to speak at the international aids conference. a number of researchers were killed on board mh-17. >> we need to wait to make any definitive statements until we know what happened but it is
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sickening thinking about those people that were knocked out of the sky. it's pretty tough. >> reporter: do you believe the u.s. and international community did enough to try and stop the fighting, considering that these advanced military technology appears to have landed in the hands of pro-russian forces? >> the answer to your question you asked is yes. but it doesn't mean that i think we did enough. there's another question, though, and that is, whether we could then and we can now give the government the kind of economic support they need for the course they've laid out. >> we met with the former president in veet mitt romnietn children living with hiv/aids. he has a special connection with this country.
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back in 2000, he became the first u.s. president to visit since the end of the vietnam war. and while in office, he lifted the long-standing trade embargo: there is so much painful history attached to this country and yet as president you redefined u.s. relations with vietnam hoping to transform this country. how does this rank as one of your achievements? >> well, for me personally, it's way up there. i mean, 20 years ago this year we dropped the em bbargo. we probably don't have a stronger ally in asia now than vietnam. i think per capita income, vietnam was like $300 a year when we started 20 years ago and now it's just off the charts. so it's -- it's really wonderful. every time i come here, it's just -- i pinch myself almost to
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see what's happened. >> reporter: it changed people's lives? >> yeah, it has. i'm glad we did it and i'm glad it worked out and i'm glad i had the support of so many vietnam veterans, including secretary of state kerry. we were doing this together. >> reporter: in hanoi, clinton visited an aids orphanage where he saw children benefiting from his foundation's work. >> when we came here first in 2006, every one of these children was hiv positive, they would have eventually have died of aids. they had no future. and to see them now healthy and alive and -- it's just amazing. it's far more than anything i could say justify the way i try to live my life now. i love my life in politics. i loved it.
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but the difference i think now is that i can see the personal human implications of the decisions we make. >> reporter: clinton was still in indonesia, looking at the devastation of the tsunami that killed 200,000 people. >> you know, it's almost impossible to believe that ten years ago there was literally nothing. >> reporter: the power of mother nature? >> yeah. >> reporter: he was there shortly after the disaster as a u.n. special envoy working alongside former president george bush sr. >> after president bush and i did our work, they asked me to be the coordinator for their efforts and i did that for a couple of years. >> reporter: spending time with
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local children at a mosque. even as news of undocumented children crossing the u.s. border is in the headlines back home. president obama believes they have to be deported and at the same time he wants to overhaul the immigration system. what is the answer? >> first of all, in general i support what he's trying to do. there is no question that a lot of those young people were sent to the united states because they were told by -- in the countries they came from that once they got here, if they were kids, they could stay. so we just got to work through all of this. but i think in general what the president has proposed is good. but we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation. and i hope you will get this money he's asked for because some of these kids may be eligible to stay under our laws because of the circumstances that they face back home.
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>> now, the question on everybody's lips, is your wife, hillary clinton, going to run for president in 2016? can you answer that? >> no. i don't know. this has been the first three times she's had in a long team. we've reached a point in our lives when we think you really shouldn't run for office if you don't have a clear idea of what you can do and a unique contribution that you can make and you can outline that and i'm proud of her. whatever she does is fine with me. i'll support her whatever she decides. >> what is your advice? >> she hasn't asked me yet? >> really? >> no. no. >> if president, what kind of president would she be? >> oh, she'd be really good. it's a decision that only she can make and i'm not going to try to jump the gun and if she
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decides not to do it, i'll be happy, too. when i left the white house and hillary went into the senate in new york, i told her, for 26 years you made a lot of sacrifices for my public life, so i give you the next 26 years. and if i'm still around then, we'll fight about what to do after that. so we're just a little over halfway through the second 26 years and whatever she wants is fine with me. >> so laid back there. a great conversation with former u.s. president bill clinton. let's take you to south korea now where investigators are trying to figure out how a man died. he's believed to be the head of the shipping company that operated the ferry sea wall in april killing at least 300 people, most of them students, you may remember. his badly decomposed body was found in a plum orchard last month. the manhunt for him had been
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under way for months. official results of indonesia's presidential election could be released in a few hours. the vote was hotly contested with candidate and former special forces chief prabo prabowo subianto alleging mass cheating. his opponent, joko widodo, is expected to win the election. this is the first ever hand over from one elect government to another in the world's largest muslim majority democracy. well, did russian supplied missiles really play a role in the downing of flight mh-17? >> that's the story that you're seeing in most of the western media but someone says, oh, no, the west is getting it all wrong. details on that after the break.
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. all right, everyone, let's get you the latest information in to cnn of malaysia airlines flight 17. >> five days after the plane plummeted to the ground with 298 people on board, there are finally signs of cooperation. the black box recorders are now in the hands of malaysian officials. the rebels turned the boxes over at a public meeting in donetsk. >> and 298 bodies are being sent from ukraine to kharkiv and from there will be flown to amsterdam. >> a resolution was passed condemning the shootdown and calling for an investigation. now, many of the nations that lost their citizens in the downing of that plane are laying blame for the disaster at russia's doorstep. i spoke with the director of the institute for democracy and
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cooperation in new york, our russian think tank. and i asked him what he thought of western media coverage of the disaster. >> unfortunately, western media immediately jumped to conclusions following, of course, american politicians' very quick judgments who is guilty. and as a result, a lot of people using the fake, you know, interception of conversation to self-defense commanders decided that the pro-russian forces shut down the plane. and then this sense the position of the russian president is more balanced. he said, listen, we are opened for
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for unbiased and impartial and senator mccain and many others, even the president, they jumped to blame russia in all this, what happened in the skies over ukraine. >> so you're saying that some of this evidence that the world has been seeing, including this audio intercept that was provided or produced by the ukrainian government has been fabricated. i want you to expand on that in just a bit. but the world wants to know who shot down mh-17 and on sunday we heard from the british prime minister david cameron. he wrote an op-ed in the sunday times and said that it was an outrage made in moscow and president obama had very stern words. take a listen to that first and then we'll get your reaction on the other side. >> russia has urged them on, russia has trained them.
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we know that russia has armed them with military equipment and weapons, including anti-aircraft weapons. key separatists leaders are russian citizens. so given its direct influence over the separatists, russia and president putin in particular, has direct responsibility to compel them to cooperate with the investigation. that is the least that they can do. >> so my question to you, do you agree with president obama when he says that putin has direct responsibility to compel them, him talking about the pro-russian separatists, to cooperate with the investigation? >> well, you know, moscow and the russian forces, they always said that they are open for a cooperation. the problem is not the cooperation. the problem is that i think that everything was turned in at presentation of american
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president upside down. the problem is that several months in the eastern part of ukraine is going, you know, a large scale civil war and authorities are killing their people. and 500 -- 500,000 people free from russian border to the russian border from ukraine. >> but you say that the pro-russian separatists have shown that they want to cooperate. in what ways have they shown that if there are allegations that evidence has been reproved from this crash site and, not to mention, the several delays for international investigators to get access to this remote area? >> that's not true. that's the problem, you know. yesterday i watched russian television and the prime minister of donetsk republic said, we're surprised. these investigators got stuck in kiev. what are they doing in kiev? why are they not coming to
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donetsk? welcome them to come and we'll provide every kind of assistance to them. but the problem is, by the way, you know, on the ground now the temperature is over 90 degrees farenheit and, you know, their bodies are decomposing and that's why they are trying to collect them and to put together and it's impossible, it's a area. it's not just a kind of peaceful place. this is not a garden happen all these things. this is a large-scale civil war going on over there. >> an interesting perspective indeed from the director of the institute for democracy and cooperation speaking to us from new york a short time ago. we'll be back after this. when folks think about what they get from alaska,
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now later today taiwan is expected to experience its first typhoon of 2014. >> it seems like it's been a very active season. our meteorologist is joining us now with more on that big blob of red behind you. >> yeah, it's that time of year, guys. you know, the water is really supportive of these storms. a massive storm system, some 2,000 kill lometers. up towards taiwan where it made landfall, by the way, the latest models bring it between tuesday and wednesday morning. water temperatures here, would you believe it, warmest water temperatures in the world. >> nearly 86 degrees fahrenheit. there are 150 kilometer winds
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here. the video comes out here and i'll share it with you, the damage left in place and clean-up operations with well over 100 large trees coming down on to roads, blocking streets. of course, access across some of these areas, we know the fatality is 194 in total. this was the storm system that made landfall in the philippines exactly seven days ago and now we're beginning to watch another feature push in towards taiwan. looking at a pretty brisk speed. no defined eye at this point. we expect it to strengthen as it approaches land and that will happen right around midnight. this island is home to some of the highest mountains in the world. upwards of 286 mountains in
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taiwan, over 3,000 meters in height, or 10,000 feet in elevation. so the mountains here. we expect because of the warm sea surface temperatures out across the taiwan strait that this storm system has the potential to restrengthen yet again before impacting china sometime beyond wednesday into thursday. how much rainfall are we talking? quite impressive. upwards of 75 centimeters. 35 inches of rainfall expected across the higher elevations of taiwan but you work your way towards the populated centers, 264 millimeters which is roughly about 6 or 7 inches of rainfall across this region, getting several inches of rainfall over the next few days which is going to cause substantial flooding concerns before this storm system moves ashore. there's the latest models taking it into wednesday. if you're tuned in across the south and china, another system is headed your direction coming
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in sometime at the latter partial of the week where wind is going to be major concern and accompanied with heavier rainfall. rammasun is going to be something to watch here as well. >> one storm after another. >> this brings up cooler waters from deeper into the ocean and that inhibits a few days following the storm. >> it is warm. >> thanks. >> you bet. a feel-good story for you. prince george turns 1 today. >> he is so cute and two pictures are being released. george visited the national history museum earlier this month. many have been captivated by george ever since the duke and duchess of cambridge first showed him off. >> good that he's photo generge. you hate when people have an ugly baby and --
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