watching. i'm wolf blitzer in jerusalem. stay with us. the israel and hamas situation very dangerous. dangerous right now. we'll be back tomorrow, in the meantime, erin burnett out front starts right now. next breaking news, hamas says no to a cease-fire. israel says it was on board. so what will it take to get people to agree? plus, commercial planes flying over war zones right now and every hour of the day. an out front special report. and the deadliest ebola in world history. is an american outbreak just a plane ride away? let's go out front. good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. we begin with the breaking news. hamas rejecting any cease-fire with israel. the leader of hamas' lead eer says there's no middle ground

until israel ends the "aggression" and "cease of gaza." so what went so terribly wrong? so far palestinian officials say 1,229 people in gaza have died since the latest conflict began. almost all of them civilian. israel says 53 of the soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed in the fighting. out front tonight, wolf blitzer in jerusalem. karl penhaul in gaza city. i want to again with you, karl. do we have that shot back? sorry. i know where you're standing there have been flares. the fighting has been going on and on. that's why there's been difficulty with the shot. what are you seeing now? >> right now, erin, even if i step just a little bit out of shot, that's the picture. it looks like a big black hole out there tonight. and there's a reason for that. it's because gaza's main and only power plant, in fact, just south of where we are now has been hit. it's been damaged.

for much of the day. the diesel storage tanks were on fire. it's out of action. the chief of the power plant says it could be out of action for up to a year. now like so many other incidents in the confrontation, there's controversy over who fired the piece of ammunition who destroyed the storage tanks. the israelis say that was not on our target list. but they say that they are checking into it. to see if it may have been another round, erin. >> karl, in terms of the cease-fire, you talk of a cease-fire where you are. have you been seeing flares? in sorts of explosions tonight? >> reporter: we have seen quite a large explosion, a series of large explosions across the eastern part of gaza towards the border with israel. and in the night we have

heard -- sorry. you mentioned explosions, and there is another one. again out towards eastern gaza. there have been a number of f-16 fighter bombers making load runs over the area and dumping what we believe were 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs in the area during the course of the the late afternoon as well. that same site was also being heavily pounded by the same type of bombs. the kind of bombs, the weight of the bombs and the size of the explosions, some of the largest that i've seen in the last two weeks, and it kind of indicates to me that those may be targeting underground tunnel complexes. but we have no confirmation on that so far. we have heard artillery fire and quite interesting, again in the the east of gaza. fairly close in. we have heard small arms fire. a light machine gun, and then the sound of assault rifles. that was sustained for about half an hour. indicates to me again that

militant factions are engaged in hand-to-hand fighting with israeli ground troops in part of eastern gaza as well, erin. >> karl, thank you. we're going to go back to karl tonight in gaza city where it is so dark because that power plant was hit by some sort of a missile. let's go to wolf blitzer now in jerusalem. you've been talking to officials there all day. and what are they trying to say? >> reporter: they're saying they're going to continue their operations. they want to destroy as much of hamas' infrastructure as possible. not only the rockets and missiles, but also the tunnels that go from gaza to israel. they say they have a lot more work to do. at the same time, they're not ruling out the possibility of a cease-fire. they want to see what the cease-fire entails. if it's the original egyptian proposal, they would be open to it. they don't like the add-ones that were attached to the original egyptian proposal, which israel accepted, hamas

rejected. in the meantime, for the the israelis, priority number one, i must say on the battlefield, erin, are those tunnels because the israelis are so concerned hamas infiltraters can get into israel or kidnap israelis. right near israel's border with gaza a battle is under way tunnels have been discovered, used to launch attacks. the israeli military is determined to destroy them all. these tunnels are barely large enough to maneuver. >> the purpose of the tunnel was to go from gaza into israel. there's an israeli at @ exit here. the entrance is in gaza. it's almost three kilometers long. the tunnel threat has israel on edge. the idf says the purpose of the underground passages is to attack and kidnap israelis. >> it's very easy to do it. to kill and nobody knows that

there are people in the tunnel. >> the israeli military discovered this tunnel before it was finished. lieutenant colonel believes it took hamas a few meters per day to kill. >> they need a lot of time to do it. >> the process of locating and destroying the tunnels also takes a long time. israeli officials say they destroyed at least 15 tunnels so far. other tunnels are still being used. ch israel said its troops killed five palestinians. how long have you been working this tunnel? >> this tunnel, we are working for like a few weeks. >> a few weeks already. >> yeah. >> israeli used radar to track the development of the tunnels. but the idf says it's an open question as to when the network of passages will be fully dismantled. how long will it take? to destroy all the tunnels?

>> i don't know. >> nobody does. >> nobody knows. >> yeah. >> israeli intelligence says that they've already discovered 31 tunnels and the israelis say they've destroyed 15 of them. once again, they don't know how many more might still be out there. what really worries them is infiltrators can kidnap a soldier and try to do a trade. along the lines of what happens with an israeli prisoner who spent five years in captivity in hamas hands in gaza. eventually he was freed for a thousand palestinian prisoners. that's what terrifies the israelis right now. >> and joining me now, a former u.s. ambassador to the the united nations, along with the author of "the the crisis of zionism." peter, let me start with you. it feels like talk of a cease-fire is becoming more and more meaningless. you have where karl penhaul is

standing and it is pitch black because a power plant was struck. question as to who did it, but it's getting worse. >> one thing is you don't have a broker that has credibility on each side. you have egypt k which is a sworn enemy of the brotherhood, and then you have katar and turkey, which israel doesn't trust. but beyond that, you also have very different demands. israel wants the demille tear of gaza. which is understandable. palestinians in general, not just hamas, but palestinians in gaza overwhelmingly want some relief from a blockade, some of which is not justified by security. it's almost impossible to export from gaza, which has had a terrible effect on the gaza economy. the fishermen cannot go more than three miles off the coast. these are conflicting demands. >> and ken, you know, the united states hasn't seemed the to be helping. secretary john kerry gets out in the middle of this, puts a cease-fire on the table. unanimously it gets rejected by the the israeli security

cabinet. the united states ally. a columnist in one of the main newspapers lashed out, writing u.s. secretary of state john kerry ruined everything. senior officials described the proposal as a strategic terrorist attack. these are incredibly harsh words, ken. >> well, erin, the fact is -- those words are too harsh, to tell you the truth, for secretary kerry. ied a mir his determination in this. there's a little frantic nature about his time as secretary of state, however. and he's a little bit like the white rabbit running from here to there and always late for some cease-fire somewhere around the world. the fact is, i don't think the cease-fire has been in americans' interest over the past few days or even weeks. and i think it's absolutely perfect right now, perfect right now, that israel accepts and hamas rejects. so that's ideal. if he brought that about, he

really deserves kudos for that. because i think the objective should be to eliminate the kind of leadership that the gazans have had over the past, what is it, eight years since the israeli withdrawal. >> i would love to see the tunnels destroyed and gaza demilitirized. hundreds of children are being killed every night. and this is seen around the world, i don't think you can call it perfect or ideal. it would be wonderful to dismantle, to get rid of hamas and gaza. but to defeat hamas politically, you need to show palestinians that recognizing israel's right to exist and supporting nonviolence actually gets them somewhere. and this israeli government has shown when they recognize israel time and time again, he gets further settlement growth. that makes hamas stronger. >> yeah, i think that's a little harsh peter. and the fact is the israelis were brave years ago. they removed all the israelis.

the israeli settlements from that land. in a unilateral move. and they said, let's have responsible leadership over there. and the the the fact is, there's enormous resources, peter, being given to build the tunnels to the military rockets. that's what the leadership is focused on. they're not building schools. they're not building roads. they're not providing for their people. so i think the government is a lousy government over there. and it's seen as lousy not only by the israelis but also by the egyptians and moderate arabs around the middle east. so i think what the united states needs is a strategy. ronald reagan, which i just wrote a book -- >> all right. >> he had a strategy. f he had points that he wanted to make to get to that strategy. and he had the courage to stick with the strategy. i don't see any of those three elements now, erin. >> peter, before we go.

you talk about the inequality of the death toll. people say you can't trust palestinians on the death toll. today a cash of rockets found at another u.n. school. the u.n. found it. now this school is currently closed. f it's not being used as a shelter. but doesn't this bolster the whole israeli point? that hamas is hiding weapons in civilian areas, forcing israel to choose between allowing the weapons to stay or allowing hamas to use them to kill israelis? >> yes. and israel is in a terribly difficult position in terms of how to respond militarily. but that's precisely why it has to recognize that a military response is not a substitute for a political response. if you want palestinians to turn against hamas, as ken and i both do, you have to show that the alternative path, the path that mahmoud has taken, accepting the right to exist, supporting nonviolence gets you somewhere. what terrifies me is so many palestinians feel that hamas' way, immoral, disruptive, repellent is more effective than

his way because now people are talking about the blockade of gaza. they weren't talking about it before the rockets. israel has to return people who support israel's right to exist into winners. this israeli government, tragically, has done the opposite. >> all right. thanks very much to both of you. very interesting point to you. weren't hearing about how the fishermen couldn't go off more than three miles to get their fish until this. president obama addressing new sanctions against vladimir putin? a man who has meant vladimir putin who spent time with him and knows everything about him is "out front." and a man from minnesota dies from ebola after flying on a plane full of passengers. and another stowaway found on a plane. over 20 million kids everyday in our country lack access to healthy food. for the first time american kids are slated to live a shorter life span than their parents. it's a problem that we can turn around and change.

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breaking news. ment the worlds punishes putin as the the violence escalates in ukraine. ch president obama today announces the united states is slapping moscow with new sanctions in retaliation for putin's support of rebels in ukraine. the fighting in ukraine has been getting worse since malaysia airlines flight 17 was shot out of the sky. payton walsh is among the first journalists to make his way to one of the towns under assault. nic, you were there, what did you see? >> reporter: well, it's a key town between where i'm standing and where the investigation mission is partially based and the crash site, and it's been

the reason why for the last three days now in a row, it seems the inspectors have had to turn around. yesterday we heard the shelling from afar, saw the smoke. the inspectors saw it, too. today they were in the town before they decided to embark on trying. militants are still in control of the town, but the ukrainian army is still moving around it. very heavy shelling. absolutely clear the inspectors couldn't go through, and their mission a few hours earlier aborted. the fear being, erin, we're seeing so much activity, so many moves around that crash site, to try to retake the key towns that the ukrainian government so badly wants to have control of. and we're also seeing heightened activity here in the main city of donetsk. a million people live in the city. >> and it looks like we just lost nick payton walsh there.

the sanctions that have been announced today. the question is how much of an impact will they have? so far they have failed to stop the fighting and the flow of heavy weapons into ukraine. as the sanctions have ramped up, so has russia's support of the rebels with weapons. including the missile system believed to have struck down mh-17. the new sanctions are aimed at hitting russia's economy where it will hurt the moers. military and finance. here's president obama a couple of hours ago. >> if russia couldn'ts on the current path, the cost on russia will continue to grow. and today is a reminder that the united states means what it says. >> joining me now, general jim jones who served as president obama's national security adviser. general, great to have you with us. so far sanctions on russia have not changed president putin's calculus. in fact, the opposite. he sent more weapons in. sanctions went up. talked to a couple of experts in the financial world today. they say these sanctions are going to start to hurt. but by the end of the summer,

one expert says it will not be if sanctions have a bite, but whether russia's richest men start talking directly to putin. will the sanctions change what putin is doing? >> i don't think i know the answer to that. we'll have to wait and see. but i think the biggest news that i heard today was the fact that the europeans in particular the western europeans are with us. and this is going to escalate things i think in terms of how mr. putin has to think about the future. >> the new sanctions, general, don't sanction president putin. when you hear president obama say we mean what we say, some say why not sanction the well thinkest people in russia right? there are only a few of them. each worth 10, $20 billion or more. why tippy-toe around that? >> we may get there eventually, but certainly the emphasis on energy and defense are

significant sectors that will be felt and will have an effect. beyond that, though, i think there's a strategic issue here. particularly where energy is concerned. because mr. putin figured out back in 2006 that he could control the temperatures in many of the european households. >> mm-mm. and that would be a weapon of sorts that he could use whenever he wants to. i think we now have a weapon in our arsenal, our own energy progress since then, really puts us in a position where in the long term, strategically i think we can help our european friends wean themselves off russia and energy. and i believe, general, i think you were at the first meeting when president obama met vladimir putin, right? >> correct. >> so tell me what happened then. what is your impression of

vladimir putin? >> well, what happened was a breakfast meeting at mr. putin's outside of moscow, this was during the presidential visit, and so president medvedev, and the pictures now are representative of what happened. but we sat down at breakfast, and e we engaged in light conversation, and i think president obama said something about russian-american relations. and mr. putin responded by saying in order to understand russian-american relations we have to go back to 1945. and for the next hour and a half, he delivered a rather chilling view of history in which, he revealed himself, frankly, as someone who grew up in the cold war, considers the demice of the warsaw pact as one of the worst things to happen on the planet. that nato was the arch enemy. he resented the fact that nato

expanded to include former members of the warsaw pact. and he believed that the united states treated russia shabbily in their needs. so this is something that is in his core. and of course, we know his background in the kgb. so throw that all together and you have someone who has a very unusual view of history, and as a result, it's colored the relationship that we currently have. >> general jim jones, thank you very much. >> most welcome. >> and i want to bring in ben judah. he's spent the past three years researching vladimir putin and wrote "t the recent newsweek article. ful ben, a word you use very carefully with all the research that you did for this article, one of the things was to say i can tell whether vladimir putin is a dictator by how he spends his day. how much control he has. who else makes decision or whether it's only him.

and in all of this research you found out some fascinating things. so you write about vladimir putin's day. he wakes up late. eats breakfast around noon. swims for a couple of hours. goes to the gym. finally starts reading in the mid afternoon. this is a pretty interesting description. people may hear this and say this is a lazy guy who lets other people do things for him. but is that the the case? >> well, putin rules in a way that leaders did before the internet. he doesn't use the internet. when putin first came to the great offices of state around the millennium, he didn't have an e-mail account, and neither did the u.s. presidents. putin is the last of the analog and nondigital rulers still in power. so that's all frozen there. putin knows that obama spends the evening like scanning the news, reading tweets.

he knows that david cameron is obsessed about what's on your channel or what's on the bbc, and he thinks these guys are very much mistaken. he thinks the job of the ruler of the russian federation is to make strategic choice. he doesn't care what people are tweeting. he doesn't care what people are facebooking. he wants to make a decision in his own head, alone. a lot of his thinking takes place in the pool. >> in the pool. and when i read your reporting that he wakes up late and reads breakfast around noon. some people may say, ah, does that mean he's a big drinker. but the answer to that is, i think, pretty definitive. >> people often ask me that. how similar is the reign of putin to that of stalin? stalin also woke up late. stalin also would shuttle m miserably between the kremlin and outside. but stalin had drunken dinner parties. he would make all the animals

drink so much they would soil themselves. he would make them stand up on the tables and dance jewish songs or muslim songs to h humiliate them. but putin drinking late into the night? no. putin is not a drinker. putin is not a political leader, bringing into the kremlin a series of girls because that's what he likes. he's not a very sexual person in that way. >> so what does he spend the night doing? you write, no stories of extravagance. only loneliness. you mention the lack of a family life. that he's divorced. that the daughters don't live in russia. what does he do at night there's a rumor that he has a love child with a russian gymnast. >> there are rumors about photographers or gymnasts or women that kind of come to him at night. there's some of that hollow talk to the stories. there's something that doesn't quite sound right about them.

putin works at night. putin receives people at night. he works late. he thinks best late at night. and other people have to get used to that. >> all right, thank you very much, ben. pretty fascinating look inside a man the world is fascinated by. >> and still up front, officials on high alert after an american infected with the deadly ebola virus was able to board a flight. is a u.s. outbreak just a plane ride away? and unnecessary risk. why are commercial planes still flying over war zones? they're doing it right now. we're going to show you. this is holly. her long day of outdoor adventure starts with knee pain. and a choice. take 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. onward! i never know what kind theof adventure awaits. that the days are longer, and the breeze feels a little sweeter. and, thanks to volvo, i'll pay nothing for repairs or maintenance for 5 years, nothing.

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tonight. and now officials on alert after an american boarded a flight last week not knowing he had ebo ebola. he died just days later. is ebola truly just a plane ride away from the united states? jean casarez is out front. >> reporter: naturalized u.s. citizen patrick was hoping to fly home next week to celebrate his daughters' birthdays. the ebola virus changed everything. >> it's hit our front daughter. he was well known in the community. everyone knew him. everyone feels like they've lost their best friend or their brother. >> his wife decontee and their three children left mourning and wondering how it could happen. after visiting his infected sister, sawyer flew from liberia to nigeria and became violently ill. >> he departed on the plane with no symptoms. and he reported being symptomatic on arrival. so on, i understand he was

vomiting, and he turned themselves over. he made it known he wasn't feeling well. >> sawyer was quarantined upon landing and died five days later. but what about the passengers and the crew on sawyer's plane? ebola does not spread through the air, making it difficult, but not impossible to catch. >> the problem is we all have breaks in our hands ch even if you don't see them. you may not see open wounds. we all have them. and even if a small amount of body fluids infected with ebola gets on your hand, at that point it's too late. >> a-sky airlines that flights in the region has now voluntarily instituted airport medical screening, as well as passenger education. >> the reel key is to make sure someone who has symptoms isn't getting on a plane. >> the cdc says it's very unlikely ebola could spread to others on a plane, however --

>> people do travel, and cdc needs to be prepared for the remote possibility that one of the l travelers could get ebola and return to the u.s. while sick. >> reporter: at this point the ebola infection is confined to the african continent, with more than 670 confirmed and suspected deaths. two american health care workers are currently fighting the infection. and the cdc is actively trying to educate american and world doctors to look for the symptoms, but beyond that, to find out where this person has traveled from. if you believe they have ebola, immediately quarantine them, but here's the thing, with mr. sawyer, he started exhibiting the symptoms during the flight, and that's when you become contagio contagious. and so the airline is contacting all the fellow passengers to be on alert for the next 20 days. >> it's terrifying. i know you specialize in infectious diseases. also a consultant for the movie

"c "contagin." he gets on a plane. he doesn't know he's ill. he starts to feel very, very sick. it's too late at that point. you hear that could happen. someone get on a plane and come to the u.s., what does this say to you? >> well, he was infected before he got onto the plane. >> right. >> i don't think there's any question about that. >> right. >> and it is true that one can harbor mild symptoms that can be difficult to sort out. and it will be difficult to figure out who is ill before they get on the plane. but it would not occur in the united states or in europe, for example, because the major problem there is people who are infected have not been seeking medical attention, have not been quarantined, have not been isolated. so it's true someone could arrive in the united states, be infected, but it would either stop there probably, or maybe one or two people deeper.

so it is a concern. it is something we need to monitor. as you know, we have no vaccine deployed yet. and we have no cure. all we have is supportive care. >> people hear dr. lipken say it could go one or two people deeper. that's still terrifying. when you think of coming into is some countries, they're taking your temperature. so it could pick up this person has a fever. it doesn't happen in this country. so what is the cdc doing? >> well, they're asking health care workers and talking with airlines. but it's voluntary. there are no american airlines screening people. they're starting to in africa right now. but the fact that it's contractible through bodily fluids. this man on the plane started vomiting and having diarrhea. so think of the body fluids right there. and patrick sawyer was just about to fly home to minnesota to be with his family and three children. can you imagine the people that

would infect? >> that is the fear. you heard sanjay saying you could look at your hands and you don't realize how many tiny little cuts we may have. if someone throws up next to you on a plane and it splatters and hits your hand and gets on a cut, is that something to be concerned about at all? >> it is a concern. but honestly, if someone threw up on you on a plane, you would be concerned anyway. this is not an airborn disease. it's not like sars or influenza. we are very concerned about it, yes. but it's going to be easier to contain ebola, at least in the developed world, than it would be if we had something that was airborne. and i would not be at all surprised if at some point, at least in certain airports, people do begin to screen for temperature. >> and they would start doing that. that would seem to be important. >> this is something we can do. you're not going to use the tests for every individual who gets on board a plane.

that would be impossible. of course not. and once you're able to test it. it's too late. >> and the symptoms can be other things. >> early in the course of disease, it looks like any other common illness. you don't feel well. you have muscle aches. maybe you've got a sore throat. something like this. but there's nothing specific about ebola per se in the early phases of disease. >> patrick sawyer, who was a naturalized american citizen, his sister has it. it appears that's how he may have, with body fluids, have contracted himself. the knowledge, the education of people to not be around someone that has it. >> right. all right. well thanks very much to both of you. appreciate it. and out front next, passengers at risk. are airlines doing enough to avoid the war zones, like the one where malaysia airline 17 was shut down? and a stowaway found in the wheel well of an airplane on a u.s. base. how did it happen?

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organization melt to address the lapse in security that likely led to the downing of mh-17. they agreed that changes need to be made. but hundreds of planes still fly over combat zones every moment. out front, our aviation correspondent richard quest. this is incredible. let's start with the no-fly zone. the faa, and i'm going to mention the faa, and that's only the united states, nobody else. these are no-fly zones around the world, right? >> these are no-fly zones in red. and restricted zones in yellow. where it's recommended to avoid. and this alphabet soup of organizations said today basically is there needs to be a task force to examine the procedures, the information sharing, that deals with aircraft and safety. >> right. obviously now this is red. that used to be yellow and had planes flying over it. >> right. you had weather related plane crash over mali last week.

and air algeria was flying over it. so plenty of airlines are flying over it all the time. >> let's look at the actual routes that they are taking. >> so everyone, these are the major areas. libya, iraq, syria, iran, syria and ukraine. now if we then move this forward, you will see, hit it again, flight paths, clear that. i push next. and then you will see perfectly exactly what we're talking about. look at iraq. look at all the planes still flying over. why? emirates said they would stop flying over it. >> the dubai based airline. >> but they have to go down this way to get to the headquarters around here. now if you then take a look at what's going over other parts o f the middle east, now everybody

is avoiding the black sea area and eastern ukraine, but that you have still got to get your aircraft, somehow you've still got to fly the plane over somewhere. i mean if you're here and you want to get over there, well that's a very long way around. you can't really go around there. so am sot point there has to be a judgment. that's where the regulators come in. at some point there has to be a judgment that it's safe to go that way or it's safe to go that way or that way, and that's the big issue. >> now here's the question i have. let's say you change all these routes, right? >> you have a color. so i'm going to circle l the areas here. . these are all the planes going down to the middle east. by the way, just to make it clear to everybody, dubai is the second or third busiest -- largest. >> it's becoming the largest airport. number of seats and number of seats bought.

>> this is highly r ll lly rele millions and millions of people. how quickly can you move it? >> well, that's the problem. they said they were going to start diverging the flight. but they made it clear they were going to reroute the flight. if you go further west, you're over syria. then over this way you're in iran. and from the united states, think about it. the emirates, they're all introducing new routes. >> you can go from seattle. you can go from houston. you can go from dallas, chicago, new york. all of them. >> this is the aviation hub of the world. it's the new aviation hub of the world. and how you get there is what tla know how to deal with. how to fly safely across these regions. >> it is, it is incredible. and as you point out, it is the hub of the world. richard quest, thank you very much. and still to come, u.s.

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anderson with a look on what's coming up on ""ac 360"". >> we'll have more on the breaking news on the program. inspectors make an ugly discovery of missiles being hit in gaza. the big question, will there be retaliation. the big bombs of the three-week conflict. we'll see that and chief spokesman for israel's prime minister and ask if demilitarizing gaza would require another occupation and i'm joined by george mitchell, later in a special two-hour edition of "360." hope you join us for that. what we know about three israeli teens found dead that started the conflict. there are two different versions of what happened and who did it and sanctions placed on russia by the united states and up of. the panel weighs in. >> we'll see you? a few minutes. >> three months ago a teenager hitched a ride to hawaii by hiding in the landing gear of a

passenger jet. he lived to tell about it. that's not the case of a stow away in a u.s. military plane. tom foreman is in washington with this story. >> reporter: when the air force c 130 j landed in germany, the ground crew discover add terrible surprise. >> the body of an apparent stow away was found trapped in a compartment above the aircraft's rear landing gear. the deceased was an adolescent age possibly of black or again. >> reporter: the nationality is a mystery about the security breach further. the plane left on july 19th for an eight-day mission, although they wouldn't say in which order. this much is known, mill day. >> reporter: flights in some parts of africa are routinely exposed to far less than ideal less security. this video was shot when a u.s.

plane made an emergency landing in uganda last week and swarmed by local folks. the incident is similar to when a somali american teenager survived after stowing away in the wheel whale and the deadly outbreak of ebola in some communities raising concerns about security. >> laboratory results taken from samples in the body confirmed negative test results for diseases and the cause of death, as well as the other circumstances surrounding this incident remains under investigation. >> under investigation, shocking. an air force plane, u.s. base. this is supposed to be the most secure place of the country. did the pilots notice anything wrong with the aircraft? >> no, military officials say his precedence did not make any

difference to the handling and it is worth noting that the body was not even found in the basic post-flight inspection but only in a more thorough inspection by maintenance crews later on. as military officials acre knowledge the tragedy of this young life lost they are focussing hard on these issues of security and the questions of where did he come from, where was he going and how come no one caught him before he was aboard a u.s. military plane. >> that's a terrifying question. thank you, tom. we'll be right back. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america.

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tomorrow out front, solving the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 17. we were talking about investigators unable to get to the crash site. this is the second day in a row because of heavy fighting. the evidence is there. it's sitting in the middle of a

battle field. some key evidence is possibly at a chicken farm nearby that investigators have not even been able to visit even once. how difficult to uncover what caused the crash? we sent david mattingly to a crash investigation lab to find out. >> reporter: what happens if a bomb goes off right in the middle of a crash site like this? >> it's going to destroy an awful lot of evidence. it's going to move stuff around. depending on the size of the bomb, you may destroy everything we've got. >> reporter: you sound like you're resigned to the idea you're not going to get all the answers you would like to see from the crash site? >> personally, i don't think we're going to. >> and of course, the big risk is given the violence escalating that some sort of a bomb or missile could hit the crash site. what kind of information would they be able to get? that's the crucial information. we'll have david's report out front from that crash scene tomorrow. we look forward to seeing you then. in the meantime, have a good day. thanks for joining us.

thanks for joining us. see you tomorrow night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. thanks for joining us. welcome to a special extended two-hour edition of "360." breaking news out of gaza, international investigators make an ugly discovery, rockets hid in a a school and president obama announcing sanctions over ukraine and the downing of flight 17 and fielding the question a lot of people have been asking ever since. >> is this a new cold war, sir? >> developments on that and at the crash site, tonight the nightmare of the worst ebola outbreak yet. it's deepening, getting worse. we saw the first american fatality, a man on his last stop before heading home from africa. the world grappling with possibility of it spreading. we begin with breaking news that bolsters a key israeli argument about hamas and uses civilian facilities like schools to hide weapon