>> i know. it felt nice last week and now the heat is back and it will cool off a bit in the coming morning with us. >> live coverage of the cease-fire continues on "new day sunday" right now. >> grab your coffee and breakfast, sit back and relax. we've got a lot to tell you this morning. glad to have your company. >> 6:00 here on the east coast. this is "new day sunday." that cease-fire is no more because the fighting is raging again in gaza. >> there have been explosions, billowing smoke, the israeli military said it's resuming aerial, ground and sea strikes. this came shortly after the israeli cabinet agreed to a 24-hour cease-fire extension but it says, quote, incessant rocket attacks by hamas overnight and into this morning violated that humanitarian pause.

>> hamas said israeli troops must with draw. earlier john voss asked a spokesman about hamas's vow to fight to the death. >> we have seen a repeated -- i would say natural reflex to a situation they have every time there has been a cease-fire on the table, they have taken it up a step with aggression. i don't know if they are actually fighting to the death but indeed putting themselveses as an organization, as a terrorist body, at great risk and i'm pretty sure that they don't want to actually leave the arena. >> of course we're covering this from both sides of the israel/gaza border. martin savidge is in jerusalem. >> carl, let's start with you. help us understand the situation there right now. >> reporter: well, the cease-fire has collapsed it was a unilateral cease-fire.

israel's offer to extend throughout the course of the day up until midnight. now israel blaming incessant rocket fire on hamas. you can see from pictures of the gaza skyline, plumes of black smoke, the sound of artillery pounding and pounding away of what we can see here on the eastern gaza border and the eastern gaza neighborhoods. we're also getting word once again the israeli military advising residents of a couple of neighborhoods in northern gaza to evacuate their homes. they are also going to be targeted. hamas as you rightly say, did not accept israel's conditions for continuation of that cease-fire because they say that it was a lopsided cease-fire, hamas said it would not accept any extension that permitted israeli troops to stay in the gaza strip, also under the terms of the cease-fire offer it allowed israeli to destroy tums

and rocket launchers, to go after the infrastructure so hamas felt that its hands were tied. there does seem to be a political and military decision by hamas to go forward and wage this war against israel especially because it feels in guerrilla warfare terms it's waging a campaign. already in this war hamas inflicted four times more casualties on the israeli military than it did in the 2008-2009 war. we've seen different tactics from hamas commandos engaging the israeli military in hand-to-hand fighting in the gaza strip, and continuing to get into israeli territory to wage war on the israelis' home turf, israelis saying that the cease-fire is off and so the civilians once again are the ones that are going to be bearing the brunt of this. victor and christi. >> let's go to you, martin. hamas said this is a fight to the death, the war to end all

wars. is there no non-military solution to this? does it look likely at all there will be any diplomatic progress in ending this? >> reporter: good morning. no, at this point unfortunately it does not. at least for the timing look like there is going to be a non-violent solution to this ongoing conflict. israel would say last night cabinet voted, we were willing to extend this humanitarian cease-fire for 24 hours, and then it was hamas that rejected that and then began launching mortars and missiles and rockets into israel. so you know, from the israeli point of view they would say we offered the hand of peace and what we got was another barrage of fire coming from gaza. now, to -- it should be pointed out as the israelis were observing this humanitarian cease-fire, they said it was still their right to continue to move forward and destroy the terror tunnels, that's what they refer to as those tunnels that hamas had been building and were

constructed between gaza and israel, so it could be that hamas was seeing some of its infrastructure was being taken away from them, even though it was supposed to be a cease-fire, that was not stated by hamas but that could have been in part their motivation. they saw they were losing something during the cease-fire. so right now, unfortunately, it doesn't appear either side is willing to step back from the brink of fighting. >> martin is a strategy and carl pent hall thank you. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be here discussing the latest in efforts toward a temporary cease-fire. he will be candy crowley's guest on "state of the union" here on cnn. >> the people who witnessed the evacuation of the u.s. embassy in tripoli say there was quote a lot of movement with fighter jets and helicopters around the time that the americans were moved out. >> these pictures from the defense department show u.s. marines securing the departure

of staff there. 150 personnel including 80 marines were driven to tunisia to the west as the militia fighting intensified. >> the state department says embassy employees will continue working from washington and elsewhere in the region. >> the pentagon has been pressing to evacuate the embassy after the tripoli airport came under repeated fire and siege by militias there. threatening the option of getting americans out on commercial flights. >> heightened hostilities raise concerns whether the obama administration has a handle on escalating violence in that region. here is brian todd with more. >> reporter: an embassy in the cross-fire, now evacuated, with fighting ramped up around the u.s. embassy in tripoli, libya over the past days the convoy of diplomats is escorted out of the capital and over land to tunisia. they had to move by land because u.s. officials say the airport in tripoli wasn't an option. battles between rival militias

intensified at the airport which is near the u.s. embassy. this video shows an air bus owned by a libyan airline erupting in flames on the tarmac. secretary of state john kerry was clear the 150 americans at the embassy were at risk. >> we are suspending our current diplomatic activities at the embassy, not closing the embassy, but suspending the activities. >> reporter: former u.s. ambassador jim jeffrey evacuated twice. >> even when the situation is dangerous as long as possible but when you do have very clear and present danger and that was the case in tripoli over the last few days, you suspend operations. >> reporter: nearly three years after the fall of gadhafi, law lgsness. the u.s. is haunted by the 2012 killings in benghazi of four americans including the u.s. ambassador. what role should the u.s. play

now. >> having removed gadhafi the administration sort of took its focus off of libya and things have been getting worse quite considerable time now. i do think they should be much more engaged on the ground with the factions in libya. >> reporter: a white house official says the u.s. has been engaged on the ground in libya and will remain so. the exodus of diplomats prom plibia, follows partial in baghdad as isis rebels threat at any city. and cairo and yemen last year. has it become too dangerous to keep any u.s. embassies in the middle east open? >> no. the default position by the state department is to keep highly skilled professionals on the ground, trying to advance our interests even in a war zone, even with bullets firing around. we're used to it and good at it. >> reporter: one u.s. official says the pentagon had been pressing for weeks to evacuate

the u.s. embassy in tripoli especially after the airport had come under attack that left american nos way to get out on commercial aircraft. brian todd, cnn, washington. new information coming out about flight 17's black boxes. is the data confirming that the plane was shot out of the sky? we'll let you know what we heard. >> a family braves that war zone in ukraine. we'll have more on their dangerous journey to get answers about their daughter there at the crash site. can you pick me up at 6:30? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here! (cop) too late. i was gone for five minutes! ugh! move it. you're killing me. you know what, dad? i'm good. (dad) it may be quite a while before he's ready, but our subaru legacy will be waiting for him. (vo) the longest-lasting midsize sedan in its class. introducing the all-new subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru.

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investigators say they have made their first identification of a victim. a dutch citizen. officials say the family has been informed but the identity will not yet be released to the public. >> early findings from one of the black boxes reveal the -- reveals rather that the fuselage was hit multiple times by shrapnel consistent with a missile. this according to cbs news. cnn has not been able to confirm that information yet. >> malaysia says it secured an agreement with the pro-russian rebel for 68 of its police personnel to gain access to the crash site. they will join the dozens of dutch police who arrived. they arrived a short time ago. so what is this agreement with the pro-russian rebels to allow the international police there? what does it mean for the investigation? >> let's talk to tom. thank you so much for being with us here. wondering when we talk about the crash site, why is it that -- i want to ask why people are so afraid of putin and the fact

they have got a whole rebel group that is containing this site. we know according to barbara starr and some reports earlier, that putin is still sending in tanks and some artillery across the border into ukraine. is it just because he feels that he doesn't have any one to answer to at this point? >> i think that's true, christi. the more he beats on his chest and pushes his military to the border and across the border, the more popular he is at home. most of the russian people miss the days of the mighty soviet union when the world feared and respected them or at least feared them, and you know, putin's promise to them over these past couple of years has been to restore russia, the russian federation now, to the glory days, and the way to do that is through military might so he's threatened in the region, ukraine, he took over crimea and the world let him. the europeans let him. everybody let him.

he's threatened georgia, another neighbor. the baltics with cyber attacks, so you know, there has been no stopping him. what his message is, is stay away from my border. he doesn't want nato encroaching on the russian federation getting closer and closer by taking in countries that are adjacent to the russian border. and he's showing that. in this case recently i thought it was interesting, the day the awe australians announced they were going to send officers and the netherlands send investigators that's about the same day when barbara starr reported that the u.s. satellite coverage indicated increased military deployment on the part of the russian military to the border and across the border. his message being, don't even think about it. i'm controlling this area, my surrogate army the rebels are controlling this. we'll let you in when we feel like it and for as long as we

feel like it. >> let's talk about the black boxes in this report that shows evidence of shrapnel hitting the fuselage. is that something that can be used in court to prosecute a person if that person is ever identified, to use as a reason to go after a state or a group if it's decided that they are the ones responsible? >> well, the problem victor, is that you have no direct knowledge of who pushed the button and shot the plane down. so you can say it was a missile, you can say looking at the debris or analyzing the debris on the ground at the crash site that there's no, you know, no discussion, a missile shot the plane down. but i think that probably we're never going to know who did it, who actually shot it down. if that person's back across the border in russia, he'll be protected. the u.s. and the world, we have no extradition with the russian federation, so that person,

basically would have safe haven. and the russians aren't going to allow the fbi or any other major investigative force, either in eastern ukraine or on russian soil, they are not going to allow investigators to interview people in the way you would have to. this is like a drive-by shooting in an urban area where an innocent person gets shot down and at first you don't know who did the shooting, but the police are able to do investigation, they are able to talk to known gang member, able to put a case together. in this case we don't get to talk to the known gang members. essentially you have a fly-by shooting by someone, yes, we know the shot that was fired, we know it was a missile, we know the plane came down. who pushed the button, we don't know. >> great conversation. thank you so much. >> thank you, tom. boy, the tales of loss are heartbreaking. we're going to look at one family's journey through the war

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today. so we've been talking about how australia and dutch, they are getting the police force and this multinational force to go into the site. apparently they are not even going to attempt it today because of severe security concern there is now. >> with all that's going on there, let's bring in kim thatle travelled to the site to get answers about their daughter. they don't believe she is dead. we're getting this report that it's too dangerous and the advice at least the plea from international leaders is stay away from this area, expecting more families try to do what this family has done. >> reporter: well, the hope is that no other families are going to try to do this because we have to remember that there is a conflict going on in donesque. the report from osce puts it in perspective. there are international police

agencies trying to get in, the dutch police are here t the you a stralian prime minister wants to send officers there to try to reach the crash site to secure it. it's going to be very difficult with the fighting that's escalating there. what we saw is that one set of parents, they managed to get through and get to the crash site. >> nothing could keep these parents from flight 17's wreckage, not a bloody conflict, not a breakaway republic filled with armed rebelings. >> of course i cry. of course. we thought how we survive this. we couldn't believe it. >> even being this close they still don't want to believe their only child is gone. the 25-year-old aerospace engineer aims to be an astronaut and hopes space exploration could bring peace on earth. >> she would challenge me if i would give up. she has a training in not giving

up. >> and neither will her parents. the australians flew to ukraine armed only with shock, grief and hope to find their daughter alive. >> go. go. >> we go. >> we met them on the ukrainian side of the conflict as they fought to get to the rebel-held territory of donetsk. officials urged them not to go warning them the fighting was getting worse and ep bassy workers on the phone begged them to stay. >> you have not sorted this out. so the risk we know. >> refusing to listen they left in a private car, crossing rebel blockades to their daughter's plane that the u.s. says the rebels shot down. they are the first of the families to come here. seeing is not believing. >> i really want no condolences. i say this, no condolences.

>> denial is powerful. a parent's grief unyielding. >> reporter: we need to underscore how incredibly lucky these parents are that they were not hurt, kidnappings, people getting hurt by accident. this is not unheard of. this is a conflict zone, again what we're hearing from international observers please, do not come if you have a relative who was aboard that flight. victor, christi. >> thank you so much. the cease-fire didn't last long between israel and hamas. we know that smoke is already billowing over gaza. >> we'll take through a neighborhood destroyed by the fighting and talk about the effort to secure yet another cease-fire. ♪

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good morning to you on this sunday. half past the hour. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. five things you need to know. up first, more than 1,000 homes dangerously close to a wild fire. they have been evacuated in northern california. at least five homes burned already. officials say that the fire's threatening additional 500 homes. the flames scorched 4,000 acres thus far. >> two, this headline in the new york times is catching attention today. repeal prohibition again. the op-ed calls for the bannen on marijuana to be repealed. much like the ban on alcohol in the 1920s laws prohibiting pot put a strain on the justice system and editorial board believes that pot sales to people over 21 should be legal. >> a canadian citizen is free on $1,000 bond after he was detained by a s.w.a.t. team on

an airplane in toronto. 25-year-old ali shahi allegedly made a bomb threat. the raid was captured on cell phone video. he is charged with endangering the aircraft and other crimes. his father says she mentally ill. >> four, french president francois hollande declared three days of mourning for the victiminvicti victiminvicti victimingses of the plane kraj. the wreckage was found 18 disintegrated state. >> five, an american doctor treating ebola patients is now infected with the virus. dr. kent brantly is hospitalized undergoing treatment at an isolation center. he has been in liberia since october working for the christian group samaritans first. the breaking news this

morning we're learning that hamas has agreed to a new cease-fire extension. >> we got this word a couple minutes ago. this of course comes after the unilateral cease-fire extension by israel collapsed hours ago. israel announced it's resuming military operations from the ground, air and sea in gaza. a senior hamas spokesman says hamas agreed to a 24-hour pause that would start in just about 28 minutes from now. >> we've got martin savidge joining us from jerusalem. martin, this was something that initially israelis were willing to accept and it was hamas who rejected it because they wanted the israeli troops out as they continue this work of demolishing the tunnels there, these tunnels under the border. >> right. >> the response now that this has been accepted. >> reporter: so far we haven't heard from the israeli side but you are absolutely right, it was israel and its cabinet that said

it was willing to extend for 24 hours at midnight, then, the humanitarian pause i think is the best way to put it. this was what the united nations had been requesting. but at that time hamas came out verbally as well as militarily, and said that it was not going to adhere to that beyond what had already been said yesterday. so that came in the form of a statement from hamas that it was not going to honor the cease-fire, it also came in the form of mortars and rockets that were fired out of gaza against israel. now it appears that hamas somehow has been convinced or come to the decision that it will now honor a humanitarian pause, it says it will begin at 2:00 local time, which is a little less than a half hour from now. and that it would continue for 24 hours. but again, we have not heard from the israeli side, to understand if they will adhere to it since it was hamas that originally broke this. so you know, it's going to be back and forth here. that's the problem.

then the israelis are going to wonder why has hamas suddenly changed its mind. what is different now, say, 12 hours later than what they wouldn't agree to 12 hours before. there's a lot to be worked out. if it's true, at least for the people in gaza, the civilians, it would be a welcome respite. >> you knew what i was going to ask you because everybody is wondering why the sudden turnaround by hamas. do you think it could have anything to do with the fact that there have been bombings there over the last few hours and is it any indication that perhaps israel has done pretty severe damage in that time? >> reporter: i don't know. both sides have to be concerned not only with the conflict on the ground there, which they definitely are, but they also have to be concerned about what their image is and how they are perceived when it comes to public relations in the rest of the world. israel, by agreeing to say look, we'll extend for 24 hours, might have appeared to have been in a very good position whereas when hamas starts firing rockets and

says no, we won't do that, that makes it look exactly like what israel has maintained, they are a terrorist organization that refuses to negotiate when it comes to peace. a bit of brinksmanship. israel has said look, we agree to a pause, but our troops will remain in gaza up until this point that is something hamas said was totally unacceptable. it wanted israeli forces to withdraw outside of the border of gaza for any kind of extended cease-fire. i presume that is still what they want though we have not heard specifics. we're waiting again to hear if israel will adhere to what hamas is willing to offer. >> martin, we were talking about if there was potential for a long term resolution to this, but earlier this morning lieutenant colonel petter lerner told cnn he believed they were halfway through the tunnels that hamas had built, is a huge point

of contention in this conflict. is there any indication f they are halfway through now, if israel gets through a certain portion of those tunnels for they get to all of those that they will pull back? >> reporter: i think there is no doubt that israel wants to identify where all of the tunnels are. they perceive and truly believe they are a great threat to israelis. these are tunnels, many heard about tunnels before when it comes to gaza. these are not the smuggling kind of tunnels that traditionally had run between egypt to gaza. they are extensive and they are quite well built. they run from gaza under the security border into israel. israel believes that these are one purpose only, to launch terror attacks against its population, against the farming communities that are located next door to gaza, against israelis. these tunnels have been fairly effective in that they can hide material, they can move the militants undetected and pop up. they have also, the idf alleged

that these are used in gaza to attack israeli forces. so they are considered every bit as much a weapon as the rockets that have been fired from gaza and their demolition is crucial. they believe there are tens more to be discovered. given that, it would be expected it would take israel probably many more days to locate, destroy and then get out of gaza. >> martin savidge in jerusalem. thank you very much for joining us on the breaking news, a temporary cease-fire which is scheduled to begin in about 22 1/2 minutes. going to be 7:00 a.m. eastern, 2:00 p.m. local, for 24 hours, u.n. mediated humanitarian pause. doubling the time of the last one. at this morning at 9:00 arena israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be here on cnn discussing the latest efforts toward an extended cease-fire. he'll be candy crowley's guest

on state of the union. we'll talk about the breaking news, here on cnn. >> hillary clinton weighed in on the crisis speaking on gps. >> people from both sides of whatever divide it is, whether it's israeli, palestinian, russian speaking, ukrainian speaking, whatever it might be, people have to start listening and working together to build habits of cooperation that might possibly lead to greater trust. >> well, this morning we've learned that the mh-17 crash site too dangerous, spoke with nick peyton walsh, too dangerous to access. there are still victims there and many of the victims were dutch citizens and some had ties to the u.s. >> we are talking to a man who lost his nephews on that fatal flight. talk to him about how the identification process is going and what they as a family on the flight are hearing now. (son) oh no...

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the person publicly but they say that person's family has been informed, and you pair that with the news from cbs that they say they learned early details from one of the black boxes which indicates that the plane was indeed shot down by a missile. cnn has not been able to independently confirm that information. >> we want to bring in ha ruin koehler on the phone. he lost two nephews when flight 17 crashed. >> thank you for joining us again. we understand -- >> thank you for having me. >> certainly. we understand your family received a call from the dutch forensics team. what did they tell you? >> yes. they called last night and they simply you know, informed that out of all of the victims that have been brought back to the netherlands for examination that one positive identification has been made, i guess they confirm obviously that it was not our

boys but did not share who that particular person is. >> did they give you any indication as to when they thought they might have some definitive news for her? >> no. they have been careful and diligent in repeating and underlining the fact this could be pain staking, it could take a few hours, a few weeks. they keep drawing back the analogy to the 2010 tripoli crash where 70 dutch citizens lost their lives and took 2 1/2 months to i.d. everyone on board. >> what has your sister's involvement been in helping to identify these boys? i understand that she spent several hours with these -- the teams and investigators. tell us about this side of what's happening. >> yes. the accident happened last thursday and i believe it was monday that the hotel where malaysian airlines put up the

two, each family has been assigned to dutch officers for the victims residing here in the netherlands. they spent about five hours with her, in depth, you know, investigation. had a bunch of forms to fill out. asked them all about personal belongings, birth marks, anything that she could shed light on insofar as dental records, getting authorizations, releases for the doctors, primary care physicians and they informed about what we discussed they also mentioned that she had initially in the interview told them about birth marks so they wanted to clarify the general vicinity of the birth marks on the boys' bodies and which of the boys had the birth marks. >> harun, we have news from cbs that the black boxes reveal it was indeed a missile that took the plane down. what is your reaction to that

information now? >> well, i mean, we all knew somewhat informally along from the very beginning that this must have been a missile attack. it's a flagrant violation of international law and even the subsequent treatment or disrespect for the crime scene and the contamination. i heard informally also from dutch tv and colleagues in the aviation field that not only did that happen but right now the separatists are actually planting evidence of other downed planes primarily military planes, among the debris, this is of course all hearsay, unconfirmed. i don't have evidence of that. but this is what i'm hearing that they are doing that to deny -- further solidify and strengthen the deniability that they may have in so far as the russian government is concerned. so if that really is true and gets confirmed down the line, it's just you know, despicable. >> there are reports there from

the ose monitors that there have been passports and other personal effects that have appeared now that weren't there days ago. and we're going to talk more about that later this morning. harun, i know this is a difficult time for your family. we thank you for taking a few minutes to speak with us. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, appreciate it. you know, white flags, they usually mean surrender, right. >> what about this one. these flags on top of the brooklyn bridge. they may indicate something sinister. who put them up and who would risk their lives to do that? you think you take off all your make-up before bed. but do you really? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. can your makeup remover do that? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover. can your makeup remover do that? thank ythank you for defendiyour sacrifice.

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philadelphia is on the lookout for two men suspected in a violent carjacking that led to the deaths of three children. we know right now there is a $110,000 reward for any information that leads to arrest. >> police say the men carjacked a woman at gunpoint on friday night. investigators say they ended up losing control and crashed into a mother and her three children selling fruit on the sidewalk. a 15-year-old girl, a 10-year-old boy, and a 7-year-old boy were killed. the mom, she's still in critical condition. so here's a question in new york that police are trying to answer right now. who would climb up to the top of the brooklyn bridge and set up giant white flags? susan candiotti is checking in. >> who did it and why. two bleached flags on top of the

brooklyn bridge in the middle of the night. >> we're looking across social media and other indications or indicators to see if there is any claim of responsibility for this. >> new details emerging, a law enforcement official tells cnn, dna collected from tin pans. that's what they say climbers used to cover bridge lights tuesday to hoist the flags without being seen. on this earth cam video it's hard to make out but you can see lights flickering around 3:30 in the morning near one flagpole. so far no dna match. >> at this time it appears it has no particular nexus to terrorism or even politics. this may be somebody's art project or may be an attempt at making some kind of statement but at this point it's not clear what that is. >> or where the bleached 11 by 20-foot american flags with hand stitching came from. officials are interviewing flag

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charleston, columbus, that's where the moderate risk is. slight risk including all of these areas in the light orange, that includes all of our cities, most of our big cities in the northeast. we're looking at damaging winds, large hail, a slight possibility of a few tornados. so we'll be looking for that as we go into the afternoon. the severe threat lasts until tomorrow as well. but it does shift a little bit to the south. so we'll be including cities like montgomery, jacksonville and those coastal cities along the carolinas tomorrow, same type of threat, just different area tomorrow. it's that cold front we've been talking about, believe it or not, that's been causing a lot of rain, a little bit of severe weather and it is starting to drop those temperatures down from north to south. so yes, we'll all feel a little bit of relief in the coming days but it takes a while to get there. d.c., baltimore, you're in the bull's eye as far as rainfall goes. we'll see that rain move into places like new york city and boston as we go into the afternoon. we're also going to see from

three to five inches of rain in charleston, 1 to 3 outside of cleveland, new york city, boston, you could pick up an inch of rain. we've got cooler air starting to filter down into the east, we've got warm temperatures in the west. we're talking about when you factor in the heat index, triple digits across much of the south for today. actual temperatures will be in the 90s but look at this, guys. atlanta, look, come tuesday we'll drop by 10 degrees. low to mid 80s. looking better. >> that's better. >> see? >> i'll take it. >> jennifer, thank you. and thank you for starting your morning wisconsin. >> much more ahead on the next hour of your new day. it starts right now. good morning. 7:00 right now. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 7:00 on the east coast. 4:00 out west and 2:00 p.m. in israel where there's hope this

morning that a cease-fire extension may hold in gaza after all. >> and it is starting allegedly right this minute. we're learning hamas has just agreed to a 24 hour cease-fire, a humanitarian pause as they call it. that is to start precisely at this hour, 7:00, 2:00 p.m. their time. it would be mediated by the united nations. >> this after an extension by israel collapsed overnight and shelling resumed. we're covering these fast moving developments from both sides of the israel/gaza border. start with wolf blitzer who joins us from jerusalem. wolf, just a few hours ago this was a no go for hamas, and now there's this about face. any indication why? >> reporter: i have no indication why but it is a major about face. hamas originally said they weren't going to go along with the israeli proposed 24 hour extension, humanitarian cease-fi