since my son was murdered. they're out there. they're evil. until we figure out how to keep them away from children, it's up to you to protect your child and to be street smart and follow your gut. >> a 12-hour ceasefire between israel and hamas allows citizens to get critical aid and assess the damage. you can see the damage for yourself. it looks like there won't be another break in the fighting any time soon. >> the united states military empties out the embassy in trippoly. with fighting in libya, the state department isn't taking any chances. >> and the infamous "costa concordia" making its way this hour for his final journey in genoa. we'll have a live report on what

happened next. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. >> it is 9:00 a.m. in gaza where hamas has rejected a 24-hour ceasefire extension that israel had accepted. >> the united nations urged both sides to agree to extend saturday's original 12-hour humanitarian window. israel said it would go along. hamas says any truce, though, must include the withdrawal of israeli troops from gaza. >> more than 1,000 palestinians have been killed since the conflict began. israel says 43 of its soldiers have died. israel says at least three rockets have been fired from gaza in the hours since it accepted that ceasefire extension. for more, we go to cnn's john voss in jerusalem. >> yes, three rockets fired in the last couple of hours, but just in the last few moments,

according to the israeli defense forces, seven more rockets fired from gaza into israel, warning sirens could be heard in southern and central israel. so that's hamas's answer to a unilateral ceasefire by the israelis. the question, with 15 hours to go on the humanitarian window, will the israelis respond to the rocket fire? they chose not to respond to the first three rockets that had been fired earlier today. but now we're up to seven. two of those were intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system. for now, israeli troops are maintaining defensive positions inside the gaza strip. we're also told israeli forces continue to search and destroy that network of tunnels which hamas has built under gaza and under the border between gaza and israel.

that's one of the reasons why hamas refused to accept this ceasefire. they said it's unacceptable, any ceasefire, which will allow the israelis to continue to be inside the gaza strip, to continue with these operations. they said it's unacceptable palestinians can't return to their homes, and that they cannot evacuate their dead. diplomat attically, there was some hope from u.s. secretary of state and others who were meeting in paris on saturday, while they couldn't get a seven-day ceasefire, maybe 12 hours here, 24 hours there, strippi string them together for a period of calm and confidence with the israelis. and the palestinian and hamas leaders. and possibly the whole thing would deescalate. but seven more rockets fired from gaza into israel. twice before israel has agreed to a ceasefire. hamas has continued to fire the

rockets and shortly after, israel has resumed his military operation. the question now probably is not if they resume that operation, but possibly when. george? >> certainly with turkey and qatar has major factors in any sort of a deal with this, we know that secretary of state john kerry, a major point of that as well, but now that he's out of the region, john, how is that being perceived right now? >> well, look, at the end of the day, john kerry held a meeting in paris with everyone but the israelis and the palestinians. so there was never going to be any kind of agreement that came out of that negotiating session there. the egyptians didn't even turn up. the foreign minister from qatar turned, turned up late. and turkey was there as well, basically seen as the interlocktories, and hamas was there, seen as the allies of

israel. so they got a 12-hour window, where there was a ceasefire. many palestinians could head back to their homes and see the devastation which had been caused. and not a lot else. secretary kerry says they're still optimistic, but right now it's all looking pretty grim. we've heard over and over again from the israelis that the main objective for this ground operation is to find the tunnels and destroy them. they've made a big deal out of this, they've said it's a threat to israel, they've committed themselves to it. they now have to finish the job. according to israel, again, 31 hamas tunnels into gaza. they've destroyed 15. they've been there about ten days on the ground. so if you do the math, the job is about halfway done. so they'll be there for a while longer, despite what happens on the international level with all of these negotiations, at least if they're determined to get the job done and destroy all of these tunnels. george? >> and one other question.

certainly the israelis taking the time to focus on the tunnels, to get to them f we understand more than 1,000 palestinians have been killed. israeli soldiers, 43, have died from this. talk to us about this humanitarian effort, the medics trying to get to gaza, to get to the people who have been injured. >> this is what we saw when we had this 12-hour window of opportunity, the medical crews heading out to try to find anybody who may have survived that incredibly powerful israeli air strike and munitions and shelling of a number of neighborhoods in gaza. hard to believe that anybody could have survived under all of that rubble for a period of days. that's when we saw this death toll really start to soar. and right now in gaza, it is a critical situation. the hospital system there, never very good to begin with. it was creeking in the best of times. and right now trying to treat

more than 6,000 palestinians. it's overwhelmed. they're short on pretty much everything. at least during that 12-hour window on saturday, there was the opportunity to get more medical supplies into gaza. how long and what impact that will have, it just remains unclear. especially if the fighting resumes in the coming hours. the expectations, of course, there will be more death, there will be more wounded and this just continues. and the humanitarian situation inside gaza continues to get worse. there was, again, a period of time inside gaza, to repair the sewage lines, to fix the electricity lines, to get that back into some of the areas which hasn't had electricity for days, to get water flowing. these are all the issues the people of gaza are dealing with. and there has to be, you'd imagine, some pressure on hamas to try to find a way out of this conflict, especially with so many people in gaza suffering because of these israeli air strikes. don't forget on monday, we're coming up on the eid holiday, a

very big celebration on the islamic calendar and it's going to be miserable in gaza. >> a delicate balance, trying to get diplomacy. john voss, we thank you for your reporting. on saturday, many residents in gaza took the ceasefire as an opportunity to return to their homes. large areas have been hit hard by shelling. but for many people going back home, it was difficult. carl pinhall has the story. >> reporter: exodus from the front line. almost nothing left to lose. >> where i live now? where i go now? >> reporter: bits and pieces bundled on their heads. his mother's photo under his arm, he says he lost her in the 2009 war, now he's just lost his

home. >> translator: there's nothing left. nothing left. it's a massacre. >> reporter: in the embers, these men find what they say is the family safe. a life savings up in smoke. amid the destruction, some creation. lambs born minutes before the truce began. >> we're only about 700 meters from the border between gaza and israel here. quite clearly there's been close combat here. these are the card trij cases from a light machine gun. close by, a race to drag the dying back from the brink. as hamas militant gunmen saunters off to a new position, ready for when the battle begins again. four hours before the ceasefire, a massive bomb dropped here.

mid-morning, rescuers struggled to burrow in. residents unhappy with us filming as they pull out a survivor. >> translator: we pulled out eachb bodies, one of them still alive. another one still under the rubble. >> reporter: next door, they tiptoe through the debris. mohammed has rescued the family patery yark. my grand dad would say we're in god's hands. weave lost our money, but the most important thing is, we're still alive. he's salvaged birth certificates, diplomas too. people with no state desperate for every scrap of paper to prove they still exist. in the hallway, a female relative begs us to feel her pain. back in the rubble, a man gestures why.

h his neighbor believes the answer is simple. do you think there can be peace between israel and the palestinian people? >> yes. two country. palestinian, israeli. >> but for now, all they can do is believe they can rise from their ruins. carl pen hall, cnn, gaza. >> seems to be a complicated situation, but cnn will be speaking to all the major players in this clisis over the course of the next few hours. >> the israeli prime minister will be on "state of the union." also ben rhodes, that airs at 9:00 a.m. eastern time in the u.s. that's 2:00 p.m. in london. >> now turning to libya, the united states has evacuated its embassy in the embattled capital city amongst intense fighting in trippoly. the department of defense has

released these pictures of us marines securing the urgent removal of some 150 embassy staff. pentagon correspondent barbara starr has more. >> by all account, the evacuation of the 150 americans went smoothly. it included 80 marines who had been at the embassy for security duty. the evacuation plan had the americans driven out of trippoly, heading west across the border into tunisia. but there was plenty of american fire power nearby to rescue the americans, if they'd gotten into trouble on that long drive. we know now there were two f-16s overhead. a drone following the convoy all the way to the border. a u.s. navy warship in the mediterranean nearby and several dozen additional heavily armed marines flying overhead in their v-22 aircraft, ready to move in if the convoy had come under attack, and get the americans

out. the decision to evacuate the embassy clearly came after growing violence for the last several weeks. in recent days, the nearby tripoli airport had been destroyed, shut down by rival militia shelling. shelling in the neighborhood where the embassy was located. once the airport had shut down, there was no way for the americans to get out by commercial air, which is usually what happens. they simply get on a commercial airliner. but with the airport shut down and no other way to get out, it became time for the americans to go. in washington, i'm barbara starr. the news continues on cnn. straight ahead, the team working to identify the victims of flight 17, of that disaster, makes an announcement. those experts have

welcome back. the final set of passenger remains from malaysia airlines flight 17 has arrived in the netherlands. and once again, a solemn ceremony marking the coffins' arrival. 38 coffins. at this point, it's unclear when the search for more remains will continue. forensic experts have positively identified the first victim of

the downed plane. they're not naming them, but say the deceased was a dutch national. it's been a public relations nightmare for russian president vladimir putin. we talked with political experts about what his next move might be and by disinterest in russia could end up bigger targets. >> reporter: the innocent victims of someone else's war. a war which with their deaths grew wider and colder. the finger of blame pointed squarely at this man by western policy makers, russia's president vladimir putin. isolated, denounced for his alleged role in supporting, supplying, and training ukraine's rebel militias. in a clamor of outrage, european leaders are preparing further sanctions, promising to make russia pay. but mr. putin is the leader of a nuclear power and wildly popular

at home. he's framed this conflict as a battle between good and evil. mother russia protecting its cousins and compatriots in eastern ukraine against the fashists in kiev. >> a narrative being -- >> a message driven home in state television watched in almost every russian household. a prisoner of his own propaganda it will hard for him to lose face. >> on the one hand, he can't afford to dump or abandon those who consider to be russian sympathisers. pro-russian militia, fighting ukrainian forces. on the other hand, the last thing that president putin wants is a new cold war to become a reality. >> mr. putin's public response has been defiant, but predictable. a repeat of nato encroachments and western interferences and

promises that revolutions will never work back home. >> translator: definitely such directly imposed methods on russia would fail. our people, citizens of russia, would never allow this, and never accept it. >> reporter: this week in a moscow courtroom, two leaders of the 2012 anti-putin rallies were sentenced to four and a half years in a penal colony. mr. putin signed new laws cracking down on public protests. measures to assert control, perhaps, where he feels it's slipping. >> putin's strategic goal in ukraine was to prevent ukraine from falling in the western orbit. now it seems that his capacity for such a policy, for reaching such a goal, has at best diminished quite dramatically or disappeared altogether. and having lost, having suffered this defeat on his strategic goal, i think, putin will have to make up for this by cracking

down at home. >> reporter: in a video statement three days after the tragedy, he seemed ill at ease. the rebels he supported, suddenly a liability. but nato is building up its forces to move in if necessary. rather than prompting any kind of a turning point, the disaster of the malaysian airlines flight 17, appears only to have reinforced the battle lines. and just ahead, it's the recovery operation that's taken more than two years and $1.5 billion. >> that's a lot of money. right after the break, we'll bring you more on the "costa concordia's" final voyage. also ahead, the conflict in gaza spreads to a new front, how demonstrations are turning violent now in the west bank. to pitch in for an industrial-sized smoker. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time.

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welcome back. in italy, the "costa concordia" is expected to end its final voyage a short time from now. the wrecked ship is being towed to his home port near genoa,

once it makes landfall on the italian coast, it will be sold for scrap. recovery of the capsized cruiseship has taken more than two years, making it the biggest maritime salvage project to date in the world. for more, barbie joins us from rome on the phone. we were on the air when this ship was grounded and hit that rock and then lives were lost. so it's been a long ordeal. let's talk first before we talk about where it's headed, let's talk about just the huge project it's been to right this ship and get it on its way back to port. >> yeah, it really is incredible. an incredible engineering feat. 600 mostly men and some women have worked for 30 months on the tiny little tuscan island of gigli, from 29 different countries in this population of just 600 people on the island. what they've done is just incredible, considering the

location of the ship. it was resting on two underwater mountain tops. they went to its side in september, in a maneuver that had never been done before, a ship that size. and the fact that they've been able to tow it in what almost looks like a funeral procession, the ship is just really in terrible condition. it's a mess. windows are all broken. you know, the bits and pieces have fallen off over the time, and the giant metal flotation box attached to the side, it's an incredible thing to see. >> and as you speak, we're seeing the animation of what they did and how they were able to salvage this thing and get it righted and now the fact that it's being towed into port now, it's headed to genoa and basically it will be dismantled, taken apart. total cost $1.5 billion from start to finish. how long will this will take?

>> well, they expect it to take about two years, and 80% of the ship is actually going to be recycled. that is to say, 15,000 tons of steel will be melted down, used in construction girders to build other ships and cars. they'll also try to reuse the copper wiring and some of the kitchen from the ship. they're also going to be able to reuse the plumbing from the ship. so much of the process here is going to be that of recycling. the first thing they've got to do, once the ship hits the harbor is search for the remaining victim. 32 people died in the accident, one person died during the salvage operation. but there's still one body missing and it's not lost on any of the people involved that if that body is not on the shore, is very likely in the hull of that ship. that will be priority number one, to look for the remains

before they tear it apart. >> right, a crew member who died there. and what of the captain after all of this? where is he? he was charged, but has he ever admitted responsibility for in this? >> the last we had seen of captain schettino, he was at a very elegant cocktail party, while his ship that he crashed on the shores was gigli was being refloated. he has blamed the malfunctions of the ship. he's blamed the crew, the helmsmen for not understanding his orders. he's understood that it's his fault for taking the ship off course. went by the island to impress a young woman he had in the cabin with him, at the time of the accident. but in the course of this trial, which is still ongoing and we should expect a verdict sometime this fall, but he's been very defiant, saying it's the ship's

fault, the rocks weren't on the map, all these sorts of things. he even went so far last week as to accuse of people of giglio of being opportunistic to watch the ship. all of these things don't put him in good standing in the eyes of the public. this is an italian captain who crashed an italian ship on an italian shore. there are very few other people to blame but him. >> and i'm sure the people of the small area there are glad to have this eyesore and this remembrance of this tragedy off their shores now. barbie, we thank you very much for your reporting on this. the final journey for this disaster involving the "costa concordia." unsettling story there is about the captain for sure. switching over to weather n now. and ivan joins us with more.

>> thankfully no issues with the concordia, but the weather has moved to the east of them. this weather feature here is a tropical depression, trying to get going, impacting the philippines. enhancing the monsoonal flow, which means heavy rain flow for the archipelago. it looks to be moving to your north. better news for you there as you have been under the gun with all these tropical system. boundary continues to bring heavy rain across portions of china and out and into parts of japan with torrential downpours. watch this cell, just explodes over tokyo. if you're watching this from tokyo, you could hear the thunder outside because of this moving right through the heart of the city there. so showers and storms rolling through right now. this is all part of that front that hangs out here throughout the rainy season and we'll continue to see heavy rain as well across portions of eastern

china, leaving you with some pictures here of a river that's turned red out there, very interesting here. still to be determined what has caused this color. we are investigating that and will keep you posted. next half hour, we're going to the united states, we have big fires, hundreds of people evacuated east of sacramento in california. we'll update account what is being called the sand fire there in just a few minutes. >> golly, they're never-ending for sure, because of the drought. ivan, thank you. ahead here, a family in mourning in the west bank. >> how a human rights activist was killed protesting the conflict between israel and gaza. and they're so-called lone soldiers, why some americans are taking up arms for israel.