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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 weapons. prior to the outbreak, un
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inspectors twice uncovered rockets at a school it runs in gaza. with the battle raging, a third discovery of rockets. it comes at the end of 24 hours of fighting that tonight leaves parts of gaza in piles of smoking rebel and much of it entirely in the dark. >> out of this side of the building. [ bleep ]. >> you would ever see the same/ thing. >> just some of the scenes we have seen over the last 24 hours. a very active period in a battle that's now entering week four and now the breaking news, the discovery of rockets at that un school in gaza. wolf blitzer has been monitoring that and joins us with the latest. wolf, what's the latest on this
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weapons catch? >> the united nations says they saw hamas weapons in the united nations school, not the first time they say this happened. the school was not really in business, in operation but it is still very disturbing. the israelis make the point that sometimes they go after the targets, if there is a school, if there is another un facility, hamas used these facilities and the u.n. acknowledged that. at the same time, palestinians say these are not necessarily all that common. they are isolated incidents but the israelis don't believe and it part of the continuing battle between israel and hamas over who is responsible when it's said and done. >> wolf, you spoke to the ambassador of the un. what did he say? >> he says that no un facility should be housing any kind of weapon in gaza or anyplace else. the plo, palestinian representative to the united nations. at the same time, he says what
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israel is doing is obscene, outrageous, disproportion netly going after civilian targets in gaza. they make the case it's a small area and hamas deliberately places weapons in civilian areas including un facilities and the united nations acre knowledge there had are cases where they found hamas arsenals in un facilities where there are schools or other un relief centers, hospitals, places along those lines. >> wolf, a senior israeli official said israel is ready for a seize fire. it doesn't seem to be a seize fire anywhere in sight, does there? >> no, i don't think so, although, i'm hearing there are diplomatic activities, events going on right now. i think there is a real split within the cabinet of prime minister netanyahu. some are inclined for a seize fire, more headliners don't want a seize fire, they want to crush hamas right now and finish the job but some in the israeli cabinet say you know what?
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that is not going to happen, israelis are going to come under international pressure like the u.s. they would like to destroy as many tunnels as possible, destroy as many infrastructu infrastructure. there will be a seize fire sooner probably rather than later but might not be in the next few days. >> thanks very much, wolf. as we showed you, gaza has taken a pounding in the last 24 hours. both sides appear to be digging in and more flairs, more war planes overhead, more explosions. it seems a recipe for more long nights and deadly days ahead. we have more from gaza city. carl, as wolf just said, this is not the first time weapons like this have been found at a un facility. >> reporter: we have had direct communication with the united nations saying rockets have been stored in un facilities, schools and on one occasion, in fact,
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the rockets that had been placed there, discovered there, un left th them, they were removed. >> what's the latest tonight? >> reporter: the latest tonight, we have seen across in eastern gaza close to the boarder between gaza and israel some heavy ordinanance being dropped from fighter bombers. just now in the distance you can hear the thud. but what i say in eastern gaza appeared to be 2,000-pound bombs being dropped from the f-16s and the f-16s made several passes over in the course of the afternoon, as well. large bombs of the same size being dropped in that area. i would guess because of the size of the explosions, because of the weight of the ordinance that perhaps they are trying to destroy something under ground,
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perhaps a tunnel complex, but we have had no confirmation about that from the israeli military just yet, anderson. otherwise, overhead here in central gaza city, we're hearing the drones up once again and they are up there precisely because they are looking for targets, again, another pounding of a bomb going off there in the distance, as well. >> it is extraordinary, the repetitive nature of all this. i mean, when, over there in 2012 we have video of that, israelis fired at the same building that we saw being struck behind you last night. this is back in 2012. we were standing exactly where you're standing, watching what looked, appeared to be two missiles going into either side of the building. i remember running down. that's the same building that was hit last night while you were on the air. it really speaks to the kind of repetitive nature of this. >> it does beg a belief, really,
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doesn't it, that the hamas organization, both the political and military wings under their infrastructure will be targeted. the military accused the radio of reporting the military wing's property begga -- propaganda. they don't seem to move it. like you say, hit in 2012 when you were reporting from here, it was hit with three strikes last night and also, as well, while you and i were talking on air, a section of the finance ministry, only about 500 from where we are on the other side of the building, when i was here in 2008, 2009 in that confrontation, the finance ministry hit then. it seems to be a number of these targets continue to be hit. >> be careful, karl, thank you. three weeks into the war, more than 1,000 fatalities later, there seems no clear sign
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whether israel intends to wind down military operations or embark on a much longer running course of the action. joining us also in jerusalem, cheer spe chief spokesman. they saw heavy bombardment, why the intensity at this point? has the scope of the operation expanded? >> not the scope, the goal remains the same to stop those rockets coming in on israeli cities and prevent hamas terrorists from infiltrating through the tunnels, trying to kill our people. we had a chance yesterday to deescalate. we tried that very seriously and fortunately, hamas was not interested in just increasing attacks upon us and today, we're responding in time, in kind. >> yesterday you talked about, it's not just about tunnels, not just about rockets, but a demilitarized gaza. i don't understand how you think you can achieve a demilitarized
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gaza without occupying, without actually having boots on the ground there. >> first of all, it's not going to be easy, but if i can give the parameters, i would put it this way. first of all, we are through our military activity and through the fact they are using ammunitions firing at us. when this is over, hamas' stocks of weapons will be depleted. the israeli military is working to dismantle the formidable hamas terrorists machine. that's one part of it. the second part is that we're hopeful of when this is over, hamas leadership will understand that shoot rockets. if hamas can rearm, you're back to square one and we have to do this in a year and nobody wants to revisit the conflict.
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that's making sure those country whose support hamas, and there aren't many, only basically three, iran, qatar, and turkey. we have to make sure those countries, first of all, don't ship weapons to hamas and that if they do so, they are ent intercepted. >> today we saw a strike hitting the only power plant. the head believes it's shells that hit the plant. can you say definitively israel is not responsible for the strike? >> yes, all the information i have says israel is not responsible. first of all, the head of the power plant is working for the hamas control government and i don't think he can say anything else. he can only blame israel. we did not target that power station and i can tell you, we also checked to make sure it wasn't air and fire and we spoke to the relevant units, both ground forces and air force and no one was aware they targeted the plant and i remind you,
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anderson, important to remember about 10% of all hamas rockets firing out of the gaza strip, misfunction and fall in the gaza strip, that's what happened yesterday in the hospital. >> there is confusion on the part of palestinians but are there talks going on behind the scenes? >> there are talks going on in parallel to the military operation against terrorists targets in gaza. the phones have been ringing and conversations are happening and if it's possible to find a diplomatic solution, that will be a good thing. probably, the military operation and the increased pressure on hamas from our forces can augment, can help move forward a diplomatic solution. >> appreciate your time. thank you. >> thanks for having me. a lot more to talk about, as always, set your dvr to watch "360" whenever you want.
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a look at the message hamas sends to gaza and the world. the front in this battle and the war running now for years, when we continue. ♪ your eyes. even at a distance of 10 miles... the length of 146 football fields. they can see the light of a single candle. your eyes are amazing. look after them with centrum silver. multivitamins to help support your eyes, heart and brain. centrum silver. for the most amazing parts of you. now, with a new easy to swallow coating. this is the first power plant in the country to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar.
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gaza's only power plant, the sense of deja vu, the targets hit again and again over the years and the propaganda, angle, the fight over who was responsible for this and high-profile attacks and why israel is hitting the radio and television, especially the tv outlet which is a key vehicle for hamas to get its message out. take a look. ♪ ♪ >> it's a combination of news and entertainment. ♪ ♪ >> the theme of hamas rising up against israel is a near constant under current. in this video, hamas fighters tunnel into israel. attack israeli targets, then sneak back into the tunnels, and run home as heroes. the station is used to broadcast messages directly from hamas leadership and the first days of the conflict, the group spokesman encouraged gaza residents to act as human shields saying do not compile
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with the rumors and this enemy is waging upon you. the news anchors also towed the party line. how many children hamas killed? zero. how many women has hamas killed? zero. how many children has israel killed? over 400. how many did they hit? thousands. saying later, all the martyrs are civilians, all of them. ♪ ♪ they began to broadcast in gaza in 2006, shortly after hamas won a landslide victory in palestinian elections. in 2007 they garnered international scrutiny with this children's program featuring a mickey mouse-like character. who was killed by an israeli
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int interigator. they are often first on the scene of air strikes, broadcasting steering images of the conflict. images like these are themselves properaganda propaganda. to gather sympathy around the world and part of the reason israel targeted the headquarters, saying in part, it was used to quote incite palestinians and to quote transmit orders and messages to hamas operatives. we want to look closer now at the lens in which they see themselves and the rest of the world. in audition to being a former advisor 2004 to 2009 permanent status talks, he's a fellow at the brooking's institution center for middle east policy. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> hamas uses aloxa to transmit messages to hamas operatives.
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is that true in your opinion? >> it may. i think it's not unusual for governments to use their media to reinforce their own messages. i mean, israel does it, egypt does it. that's what state or government controlled media do. and i think you can make a very similar case in israel, for example, where you have kind of the inverse of hamas' propaganda where you don't see body counts, and you don't see dead children and women and civilians on israeli television. so i think it's part and parcel of conflict. it's part and parcel of politics in a way. >> the seize fire put forward by the president, some rejected it, some said they can agree to it. how much division is there in hamas? >> well, i think there is some division between the political wing, which is mostly outside of
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gaza and the military wing inside gaza and i think it's not unusual. there was some division, even before the current crisis started, difference of an opinion on how to proceed, whether in terms of national reconciliation with the palestinian authority in the west bank or how to proceed with regard to what hamas refers to as resistance. so there was already a division and i think that the conflict has exacerbated that but much to the the advantage of the hard liners, any time you have massive death toll like what you have in gaza and, you know, there is always going to be a strengthening of the position of hard liners. >> would you say it'sestinian a? >> for sure. the palestinian authority looks weak and incompetent.
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they are unable to influence any key actors in this scenario, not hamas, not israel, not the united states. i think to some extent, the united states is trying to bring the palestinian authority into this to make them relevant, but yes, this crisis has highlighted the weakness of the current palestinian leadership and actually, why it was so important to have a unified palestinian policy to begin with. >> when you hear the israeli government spokesman talking about a demilitarized gaza, i don't see the reality of that happening. do you? israel would like is for the international community to do it because it has not been able to do it itself, not when it directly occupied gaza before 2005 from 1967 until 2005 and now, of course, with a full
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blown blockade by air, land and sea, it hasn't been able to limit hamas' rearming. this is about the seventh military operation in gaza over the last nine years or so. the most serious ones being in the last five years and in 2008 and 2009 israel killed 1400 palestinians, most civilians with the same exact mission. in fact, this could be a replay of that 22-day conflict this time around, and what happened since then, hamas rockets became more advanced, more sophisticated, more numerous. so there simply is not a way to pound gaza's mission or demilitarize by force. militarization and violence is a function of occupation and the
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bla blockade. that is a response. there will be no demilitarization as long as there is a blockade. >> appreciate you being on. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> we have more on the situation in gaza and israel in the next two hours. the killing of three teenagers, bodies found in the west bank one month ago as the death toll rises, the finger pointing continues. remember, that's what started this entire round. there are at least two versions of what happened and who is to blame. we'll look at the facts behind the claims, next. (vo) ours is a world of passengers. the red-eyes. (daughter) i'm really tired. (vo) the transfers. well, that's kid number three. (vo) the co-pilots. all sitting... ...trusting... ...waiting... ...for a safe arrival. introducing the all-new subaru legacy. designed to help the driver in you... ...care for the passenger in them.
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the blame game being played out and the current conflict in gaza as roots of the kidnapping of three israeli teenagers. israel blamed the murders on hamas. an expert we spoke to last night said this would be the attack hamas normally would claim responsibility for. last night, a top israeli spokesman related his position that hamas is indeed responsible. randi kaye has more.
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>> reporter: they are abducted in the dark of night while attempting to hitchhike home from religious school until the west bank. it's june 12th, when the three israeli teenagers go missing. realizing they are in danger, one manages to make this call for help. [speaking foreign language]. >> it's the last anyone hears from them, three days later, june 15th, the boys still aren't home. benjamin netanyahu publicly blames the terror group hamas warning of consequences. >> this attack should surprise no one because hamas is committed to the destruction of israel and to carrying out terrorists attacks against israeli civilians, including
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children. >> but he offers no proof hamas is directly involved. [speaking foreign language]. >> translator: netanyahu's comments are stupid. the escalation in the west bank against our people and leadership. >> june 20th, operation brother's keeper begins in the west bank. a full scale effort to find the three israeli teenagers. more than a thousand homes with searched, more than 150 palestinian suspects are detained. the bodies of the missing boys are discovered in the west bank. >> three innocent boy that did nothing, did nothing wrong in their life, so holy, so pure and they want to kill them. >> the prime minister delivers on his threat. with israel launching air
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strikes into gaza and the west bank shortly after the bodies were found. they destroy the homes of two suspects in the kidnapping that israel calls hamas terrorists. the teenagers are buried the next day, july 1st. hamas quick to claim credit for acts of terror denies it ordered the killings and questions swirl whether or not they are really involved. a day later, july 2nd, a 17-year-old palestinian teen is abducted while heading to a mosque. his body found in a jerusalem neighborhood. he was burned alive. israel calls it a revenge killing. the next day july 3rd a cell phone captures this horrifying video of what appears to be israeli police beating a palestinian american teenager, stomping on him and kicking him. he is the cousin of the palestinian teen killed the day before. israel is investigating questioning whether the teen was an innocent by stander.
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on july 7th, israel launches operation protective edge to stop rocket fire into israel. over 100 air strikes since then, over 1,000 dead, mostly palestinian civilians. what began with the death of three young teens, now a full out war and still no proof of how it started. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> former u.s. special envoy to the middle east and former senate majority leader george mitchell joins me now. what do you make of it? three weeks in and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. >> i think both sides are calculating their gains and losses and i think fairly soon the time will come when they will coincide in deciding that its in their interest to end this round of the conflict. both are suffering some losses, both are making substantial gains, and so when that balance
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is achieved, that they both decide it's time to stop, i think there will be a seize fire, as there has been in the past. >> what is in the interest of both of them that would make them stop in the interest of israel and the interest of hamas? >> well, israel's gains are substantial in terms of degrading hamas' capability first through the tunnels to have the fighters enter israel and then secondly, it's capacity to launch missiles to israel and they -- the disadvantage to israel, of course, is the increasing out cry around the world over the large number palestinians killed, the death and destruction. once they compete the tunnel operation and substantially degrade the rocket capability, it will be time for them to take some action. on the hamas side, they are
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desperate because they have been ineffective. they haven't governed well. they haven't produced anything for the people and that's why they keep saying they need to end the blockade, which is important in terms of quality of life for people before they will stop the rockets. >> have you, i mean, you've defended secretary of state john kerry in recent days from criticism that's come his way in israel. does it surprise you the level of criticism against him? >> no, that comes with the territory. feelings are very strong in the region. keep in mind, that israel is a democracy. there are all kinds of points expressed just like in the united states. there are many people that support the u.s. government, many people strongly oppose the current administratioadministra. that's the same way in israel. so you can't expect there not to be criticism, particularly because as i said, there are
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many in israel that don't agree with the objective of american policy. they don't agree there should be a palestinian state and therefore, they are not inclined to support a policy, which has that as its objective, but anderson, let's be clear, the united states is the dominant economic and military power in the world. every country in the world thinks that our policy ought to favor them. when i first went to the middle east, i went to 17 countries and i met with the leaders there many, many times, and every time they would criticize american policy, i would ask what do you think our policy should be? and without exception, they wanted our policy to be consistent with their country's interest. you have to accept at the dominant power with a sense of maturity and some degree of resignation you will get criticized. people expect us to solve every problem in the world. we don't have that capability. west have an unequal capacity to
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influence events and that's what the secretary is trying to do and i think ultimately, it will be in the interest of both sides obvious to them to end the fighting. the next step will be to get to the point where they can negotiate, i think that's a way off. >> that certainly seems like it. appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. just ahead, 12 days after flight 17 was shot down, investigators still unable to get the work done. still unable to get to the crash si site. what is costing them in evidence and more importantly, recovering victims' remains. ♪
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welcome back. late developments, a short time ago, president obama announced sanctions in the downing of flight 17. >> we've also made it clear as i have many times that if russia continues on its current path, the cost on russia will continue to grow and today is a reminder that the united states means what it says. >> the european union expanded sanctions on russia the last 24 hours, so far none of the sanctions stopped the fighting or flow of weapons into ukraine
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according to u.s. officials. the contrary seems to be worse. nick paton walsh had to head to safer ground. take a look. >> out here it sounds like an exchange of artillery beginning between two sides. it's time to move back away from here. we left along with many other locals, some on foot, all now fleeing down a road the inspectors want to travel up. this what awaited them when they tried to go by the site unsuccessfully that day. >> for the third straight day, a team of investigators had to turn back before reaching the crash site. first, nick paton walsh joins us. how close were you able to get. >> reporter: we were within, i think, 10 to 15 miles of the large sprawling crash site but a very similar picture. the town you saw pictures from, lines between donetsk, the main
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city of a million, today where a residential apartment block was hit and the crash site itself. it's really the reason they keep having to turn back, it's been hit for the last three days in a row. we were there yesterday when they got close and had to turn around. as you saw there, we actually saw that shelling hit the town itself today. it seems to be still on the control of militants, but they are shaky, tired and cut off and don't know where the ukrainian soldiers are but do feel it in circle. that's the reason its so hard to get to the site because front lines constantly change. >> short range missiles within the first 48 hours, have ukrainian officials responded? >> they said yes, we do not use such weaponry. i have to say hearing the booms that happen this time of night so regular on the outskirts of donetsk, it's entirely possible they have. they will be getting into
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everything they can to get the advantage in this particularly brutal and bitter fight and bear in mind, too, the commander kind of sort of a figure among the militants here yesterday gave a short press conference but he did say in the last 48 hours, the ukrainian army was using heavy weaponry. so yes, certainly a lot of heavy weaponry being used, making it dangerous for civilians, one killed in that attack we saw earlier on today, anderson? >> a lot of civilians getting killed. for the third straight day, the team of osce investigators had to turn back before reaching the crash site. it's been 12 days since the plane was shot down. a spokesman for the osce joins me tonight. mig michael, this is the third day in a row where you haven't been able to get to the site. what happened.
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>> reporter: there were a lot of talks going on and we as the osc mission took the decision to do a recognizance trip, two vehicles today and we were heavily kited up and we made it as far -- we made it the other day, 2/3rds of the way to the crash site. once we got there, it was clear the bombing and shelling was heavy. at one point we had to take cover next to the vehicles because it was so bad. what this indicates, once again, is that one or perhaps both sides are not honoring their commitment seriously. today was meant to be a day of tranquility where the osc special monitoring situation as well as up to 50, 60 experts from the netherlands would have gone out to the crash site and done the crucial work we've talked about before. >> again, it bears repeating because viewers may not have heard you. for the first time you have personnel with you from the netherlands, from australia who
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actually have equipment they can use to cleblgt the victims, to collect the remains and begin the process of returning them for further examination to the netherlands. you have those people with you now for the first time? >> reporter: that's correct, anderson. these are people, don't forget, many australian who have flown half way around the world to do this. the dutch issued a statements out of kiev today and just reading between the lines you can sense frustration in being able to not get out there, not only people, anderson, equipment, specialized equipment, i've seen on the list people qualified divers that can go into big bonds of water and search for debris. i walk around here in this hotel where they are staying and you can read it because they are keen to get out there, number one priority, collect human remains, treat them with dignity and have that moved as quickly as possible back to the netherlands and back to their families. >> i know today you believed you
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would be able to get to the site because there were high-level talks in kiev and pro-russian rebels in donetsk, promises had been made on all sides and as you said, clearly, somebody did not honor the promises. are you hopeful, crossing your fingers tomorrow is going to be different? >> i think we can say we're more than hopeful. you know, the message has been honed very, very hard to both sides and i think what everyone is looking for, anderson, is a reset to a few days ago where we had, remember, so many days of pretty much unfettered access to the site in terms of the amount of time spent there and geography covered and i mentioned the other day, there is one big site that still has not been scouringed, the chicken farm where there is debris and possibly human remains. that still is waiting to be examined and processed. so a heck of a lot of work to do
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in a short amount of time. every day that goes by is another day lost in terms of possible loss of humane remains and of really crucial evidence. >> i know that some of that weighs heavily on you as you've been out to the site more than anybody else and seen it with your own eyes. appreciate you being with us, thank you. >> thank you. the first american fatality in the ebola outbreak. he boarded a plane in liberia, became visibly ill on his way to nigeria and did he spread it and can the virus spread across the globe?
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welcome back. the ebola outbreak has take an deadly turn. two americans have been sent to look after an american died shortly after flying on a regional carrier. he's the first american fatality. he became visibly ill during the flight showing symptoms. ebola does not spread through the air but only takes a tiny amount of the virus to infect
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someone. it wasn't a direct flight, it had layovers. it's a sobering develop the and health crisis that's claimed hundreds of lives. joining me tonight, dr. sanjay gupta who seen firsthand what health workers are up against and a nurse who works for the group doctors without boarders. she's been treating patients on the front lines, recently returned from guinea. the fact that this man who died was able to get on a plane, how big of a concern is it that this outbreak could spread. >> it's a real concern and a concern for some time. we've talked about this idea that when you talk about this virus, its found its way into areas where you have airports, international airports and that could be a real concern. >> people on the plane with this person are being told monitor your temperature for 21 days to see if you get a fever.
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you would have to go out in local communities in guinea trying to monitor people. how difficult is that to get people to come in to be tested. >> we get an alert. we have a team set up to investigate whether the case is suspect and whether the person needs to come in to get tested. that was the most challenging for me. we go into communities where we're not necessarily welcome because they understand now that the survival rate is not very high. >> as a nurse, what is it like to see this firsthand, the to treat people, not only i imagine, at least if it was me, there would be a certain amount of fear just about getting infected myself as a health care worker, it's often healthcare workers that get infected. what was it like for you? >> it's true. at the beginning when -- before we know there is an outbreak, the health care workers are the people that get infected first. the family members, obviously
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and health care workers and this is when we get alerts. if there is a few health care workers getting sick in the same facility, it's not normal and then we investigate. as a nurse working on the ground, working with patients affected by the ebola virus, i was not afraid. we use -- we work with barrier nursing. we use personal protective equipment, which you have seen on photos and videos, yellow gowns, sometimes yellow, sometimes white. >> you cover up every inch of yourself. >> its essential. >> you're incredibly brave. brave people never say they are, i say i'm a chicken so i can tell you. you're incredibly brave. >> when we're on the ground and see all the pes sures we have in place, very strict infection control measures, very careful waste management, the high risk and low risk areas are clearly
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defined. >> there is no cure for ebola, so the treatment, what does it entile and how effective is it? >> people just start to lose a lot of fluids but it disarms your immune system. so it switches the immune system off so it can't fight the virus, sneaky that way and also sort of inhibits your ability to clot, your body's ability to clot and therefore people start to bleed but that can cause someone to lose fluids and they can be replaced and that is what is called supportive treatment and that can be helpful, but there is no anti viral, there are a few experimental vaccines that are not widely available yet, but not much else that can be done for those patients. >> sanjay, again, flu, is it possible for someone to flew internationally in the united states with ebola here? >> when i left, it was interesting, they took my
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temperature at the airport and asked me to fill out a questionnaire, which i did and that was really about it. is it possible, yeah? i mean, if i had been exposed for whatever reason and it was 21 days later before i got sick, there was nothing that would have prevented me from getting on the plane. i think it will happen at some point. observing the process, it's almost impossible to prevent but it can be stemmed so it doesn't turn into mini secondary outbreaks is very possible. we can prevent that from happening. >> dr. sanjay gupta, appreciate you being on. >> thank you very having us. >> a programming note, the widow of the american killed in the outbreak will be on "new day" tomorrow morning to talk about his life and the family he leaves behind. next, another hour of "360." a hamas radio and tv station where missiles were discovered being hidden at another school in gaza. when folks think about what they get from alaska,
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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com thanks for joining us, thanks for staying with this special edition of "360." a striking discovery in gaza. deadly weapons hidden where children play. an outbreak that came terrifyingly close from jumping.
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preventing tragedies like 17, the answer how relatively little it could cost might surprise you. we begin tonight with the breaking news, the discovery of rockets at a un school in gaza and new explosions being heard there, all of it after a punishing 24 hours in the three-week long war. look what we've seen over the last 24 hours. >> reporter: out of this side of the building. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: you would ever see -- >> some of the images we've seen in the last 24 hours, hour after hour could be seeing more of it. hamas turned down a seize fire and israel is preparing for a announced that a new cash of rockets has been found in a
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school in gaza. it wasn't open and in session, what do you know? >> reporter: around sonderson, third time since the conflict began and they were doing a are you teen inspections of schools and as you point out, the school was being closed for the summer and not used for sheltering weapons but going through it, they found a stockpile of rockets. they won't say who they belong to, whether hamas or another group aligned. they didn't say how many have been found but issued a statement saying we condemn the group of groups who endanger civilians by placing ammunitions in schools and they didn't say what happened to the rockets. will they be handed over to an authority besides hamas? you don't know. at this particular time, any idea of diffusing them can't be comp plated.
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the united nations is saying look, this only gives justification to anyone that wants to look at these schools and say they could be being used by hamas to either hide munitions or stop the degr degradation of weaponry. it seems to prove what israel says, they hide behind the people or hide behind civilian buildings to protect their weapons to use against israel. >> in terms of a seize fire, anything new to report even though there is talk going on behind the scenes? >> reporter: well, yeah, there is skepticism. it clearly seems that despite the outside world wanting to see a sensation of hostilities, that inside here, the two main combatants, israel and hamas aren't in a mind set what they are ready to draw the line and say stop. both sides agreed to one point, that is, they cannot go back to what it was before.
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in other words, the week before this conflict began, they have had the cycles of every couple of years being involved in some kind of military operation. it seems hamas coming out and saying there is no middle ground here, we'll push forward and there must be a lifting of the embargo, israel is saying look, we're ready for a seize fire now but there can't be conditions. that's a big divide. one has a condition and the other is saying our condition is no condition. it does not appear they are in a mind set to even pause what is going on inside gaza. >> appreciate the update. as you've been seeing the last several days and at the top. karl penholt is in gaza city and reporting on the death toll, three israeli civilians have been killed with 50 troops. and hamas certainly tried to kill many more troops and civilians. what karl reports on now is not the story of the casualties,
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it's the story of one. >> reporter: you'll never get to meet little mohammed but his friend next door wants to tell you a bit about him. >> translator: top of the class at math, barcelona football star messy was his hero. he would always say messy was a hero. he worshipped messy she says. all eyes, 1 two years old. glass sprayed on me it was so loud and terrifying, i can't even describe it she says. mohammed was yards from his front door. witnesses say he and the other kids were playing toy guns. they call it dom, dom. the plastic pistol now broken, the children all dead.
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lists off their names. [speaking foreign language]. >> reporter: it's a sight he should never have seen. [speaking foreign language]. >> reporter: i saw a boy cut upright there, over there a man, he looked dead and i saw a boy who was dead, too, he says. just eight years old, he mans up and describes the explosion. a bloody hand mark in a doorway, a lucky escape for them but not their grandfather. they say he died buying them holiday candy. i saw grandpa, his head was cut, his arms and legs were cut. he was all cut up they say. witnesses young and old say they heard a drone and then the sound of a missile fired on to their street. while we were there, we saw a
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militant rocket launched about a mile away. the warring factions blame each other. we've heard their excuses before. but there is no excuse for this or this. just look at the hole this shrapnel in this car door. imagine the damage it would do to a body. as i sit on the pavement. the ambulance arrived with young mohammed's young body. i want to go and see my cousin he says. sorry, you may never even have melt mohammed, but it's already time to say good-bye. karl penhole, cnn, gaza. >> three weeks into the war, there is no clear sign whether israel intends to wind down
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operations or embark on a longer running class of operation. i spoke with the chief spokesman for ichiro suzu israel's prime . the last three hours, the heaviest, why this intensity? has the scope of the operation expanded? >> not the scope, the goal remains the same, to stop those rockets coming in on israeli cities and prevent hamas terrorists from infiltrating trying to kill our people. we had a chance yet to deescalate. we try that seriously, unfortunately, hamas was not interested and increased attacks upon us and today we're responding in time -- in kind. >> yesterday, though, you talked about, not just about tunnels and rockets, you talked about a demilitarized gaza. i just don't understand how you're able -- you think you can achieve a demilitarized gaza without occupying, without actually having boots on the
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ground there. >> first of all, it's not going to be easy, but if i can give the parameters, i would put it this way, first of all, we are through our military activity and through the fact that they are using a lot of ammunitions firing at us. when this is over, hamas' stocks of weapons will be considerably deplet depleted. the military is acting to dismantle the formidable hamas machine. that's one part of it. the second part is that we're hopeful when this is over hamas leadership will understand that they can't sheetrooot rockets a israel without impunity and thirdly, we want to make sure hamas cannot rearm. that's what happened after the previous round. if hamas can rearm, we're back to square one and we have to redo this and nobody wants to visit the conflict. it's making sure those countries who support hamas and not many, there is only basically three,
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that's iran, qatar, and turkey, that we have to make sure those countries first of all don't ship weapons to hamas and if they do so, they are intercepted before they reach the gaza strip. >> today we saw a strike hitting gaza's only power plant, the head of the power plants believes it was a tank shell or shells that hit the plant. can you say definitively that israel is not responsible for that strike? >> yes, all the information i have says israel is not responsible. first of all, the head of the power plant is working for the hamas control government, and i don't think he can say anything else. he can only blame israel. but we did not target that power station and i can tell you we also checked to make sure it wasn't air and fire and we spoke to the relevant units, ground forces and air force and no one was aware they targeted the plant and i would remind you, anderson, important to remember about 10% of all hamas rockets that fire out of the gaza strip,
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misfunction and fall in the gaza strip. that happened yesterday in the hospital. >> there is confusion on the part of the palestinians, but have you heard anything concrete about a renewed seize fire? are there talks going on behind the scenes? >> there are talks going on in parallel to the military operation against terrorist targets in gaza. the phones have been ringing and conversations are happening. if it's possible to find a diplomatic solution that will be a good thing. probably the military operation and the increased pressure on hamas from our forces can argument, can help move forward a diplomatic solution. >> appreciate your time, thank you. >> thanks for having me. next, the war for public opinion, how hamas uses television to stay in power.
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again tonight, breaking news out of gaza. the u.n. inspectors is uncovering weapons, the third discovery in weeks and take a look at this video, it's time lapse of israeli strikes in gaza, an entire neighborhood strike by strike, especially levelled to the ground. residents given warning to leave and no homes to go back to.
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there is times in the upper left hand corn er. entire operation took about an hour and there is a before and after, the before obviously at the top of the screen, what that neighborhood looked like afterward. much of gaza is in darkness tonight, the result of massive explosion at the power plant. it's a target they hit in past military campaigns in years past. also under attack, the head kwaur quarters of al-aqsa tv is
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prevented as a combination of news and entertainment. ♪ ♪ >> the theme of hamas rising up against israel is a near constant under current. in this video, hamas fighters tunnel into israel. attack israeli targets, then sneak back into the tunnels and return home as heroes. ♪ ♪ >> the station is used to broadcast messages directly from hamas leadership. the group spokesman encouraged residents to act as human shields saying quote, co-not compile with the war of rumors and psychological warfare that this enemy is waging upon you. al-aqsa's news anchor towed the party line. how many children has hamas killed? zero the anchor says. how many women has hamas killed? zero. how many children has israel killed? over 400. how many did they hit? thousands saying later, all the
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martyrs are civilians, all of them. ♪ ♪ >> al-aqsa began to broadcast in 2006 shortly after hamas won a landslide victory in elections. in 2007, they garnered international scrutiny with this children's program featuring a mickey mouse-like character named farfour killed by an israeli interrogation. beyond the clear hamas propaganda, al-aqsa broadcast from the field. they are first on the scene from air strikes broadcasting some of the most steering images of the conflict. images like these are property began to, an effort to garner sympathy around the world. and part of the reason israel
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targeted al-aqsa's headquarters saying it was used to in quote insight palestinians against israel and quote transmit orders and messages to hamas operatives. let's dig deeper with senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies. the tv station targeted yesterday, israeli accused hamas of using al-aqsa as a property began -- propaganda arm in the war. >> what the israeli claim was that al-aqsa tv was fulfilling an operational goal for hamas' military campaign. >> they said that it transmits orders and messages to hamas operatives. that was the quote. >> so that begs the question why did they wait until the 2 2nd day to target it and perhaps
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more importantly, they targeted the building they knew was empty because al-aqsa was still on air and uninterrupted because it's broadcasting apparently from an under ground location that can't be located. >> do you see it as a propaganda arm of hamas? >> well, certainly. i mean, al-aqsa television is in effect the, let's say, the official television arm of the hamas movement, and you can look at it similar to the relationship between lebanon television. i would say it serves primarily as a political and mobilization purpose in terms of operational instructions and so on. the hamas military has its own communications and i think any military analysts would find the
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acquisitions rather absurd. >> when you hear the israelis saying they want a demilitarized gaza, that it's not just the tunnels and the rockets but a demilitarized gaza, is that possible? is that feasible? >> well, it's feasible only under one of two circumstances, the first is that israel would demilitarize by force and i don't see israel prepared to pay the price in the lives of soldiers, in order to fully reoccupy the period of at least many months to achieve that purpose and the only other method by which you could do so is obtain the consent of hamas to demilitarized much like what happened for example with the irs. but that would require a political agreement with certain basic conditions of israel fulfilling, for example, the conditions of a two-state settlement amending the
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occupation and i think as secretary of state john kerry has found out very clearly over the past year, it is simply not something in regard to do. >> appreciate you being on. thank you. >> thank you. >> for me go to cnn.com. coming up, president obama announcing new sanctions against russia and isolating more than any time since the end of the cold war. is this part of a new cold war? that's one of the questions. what the president said about that today. well another great thing about all this walking i've been doing is that it's given me time to reflect on some of life's biggest questions. like, if you could save hundreds on car insurance by making one simple call, why wouldn't you make that call? see, the only thing i can think of is that you can't get any... bars. ah, that's better. it's a beautiful view. i wonder if i can see mt. rushmore from here. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.
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president obama says if russia continues on the current path, the cost will grow. sa sanctions aimed over what russia's unwillingness to recognize unsovereignty. >> reporter: the u.s. with europe ratchets up the pressure on russia. >> the united states is imposing new sanctions in key sectors of the russian economy, energy, arms and finance. we're blocking the exports of specific goods and technologies to the russian energy sector. we're expanding sanctions to
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more russian banks and defense companies, and we're formally suspending credit that encour e encourages exports to russia and financing for economic development projects. >> reporter: clear in the condemnation of russia's actions. >> they have displayed an appalling disregard for human d dece decency. >> reporter: short of getting physically involved in the military conflict, which the u.s. says is absolutely not on the table, economic pressure is the west's only weapon. europe waned all arms trading with russia, that only applies to new deals and russia and europe don't generally trade that much in military equipment. putin crow knees and russia's access to benefitting oil companies. >> russia's actions in ukraine and sanctions we've already
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imposed have made a weak russian economy even weaker. >> reporter: the white house is also adding pressure by accusing russia of arms control treaty that bans mid range ballistic missiles. president obama wrote a letter to vladimir putin about it. he says the timing has nothing to do with ukraine but there are worries of them being used or falling into the wrong hands, 12 days of the downing of a passenger plane by pro-russian separatists, there is still talk of diploma see. >> there is russia's unwillingness to recognize they can chart their own path. >> administration laid out a long list that it feels sanctions have had on the economy. investment money leaving russia but keep in mind, the desired effect of the sanctions over a period of months now is to
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change putin's strategy and so far, that has not changed at all. >> the question is will the sanctions make a difference? they they be a wakeup call for vladimir putin? joining me now, jill dori the ty. >> i think he will find ways to get around them. this week he had a meeting with defense ministers in russia and they are looking at ways to replace technology imported from abroad and doing things to mitigate the results and effects of the sanctions, and then also, i think it goes deeper. i really do believe that vladimir putin thinks that this goes way beyond ukraine at this point. i think that he believes that
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the west really does want to try to bring him down ultimately, and so i think he's digging in and, you know, it will hurt their economy. anderson, there is no question about that. but whether that will change his mind, i think there is a disconnect there. >> david, do you agree? does it hurt vladimir putin? >> all right, well, first of all, anderson, the sanctions are good news. we see a stiffening of the spine, something absent here in the weeks behind us. will they turn putin around? probably not in the short run. but if you think about it, these sanctions over time could cost investors a trillion dollars according to some estimates. we in the united states can now tip russia into a recession. there will be a blow back for europe but those things may not turn putin around fully but may stay his hand on expansion and may get him to the negotiating table and he has to know if once we commit like this, we could step up the sanctions. we haven't played the big card
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yet. we haven't gone to the nuclear option to cut off exports the way we did with iran. that crippled iran and got them to the negotiating table. successfully not, but they are at the table. he has to know, we're not backing down on this the best i can tell. >> jill, it is important to note that growth has pretty much stalled in russia, in recent years. >> yes, oh, definitely. the economy really does have problems. it's projected zero growth. there are other effects. no one really wants to invest at this point. there is extreme nervousness and from the inside, there are indications that some people in industry-leading, industry people in russia are concerned about this, as well. again, we get back to that, the truth really is that it is going to hurt but vladimir putin's mentality at this point appears to be full steam ahead and the russian people until they start really feeling the effects of
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this seem to be supporting him, for the most part. >> yeah, but anderson, the other part is and other good news is that the ukrainian forces are on the offense against the separatists. they have made ground here and so putin is going to have a hard choice. if they continue and these sanctions are put in place, does he really want to get more deeply involved? does he really want to send russian troops in? the risk has gone up for him now. >> david gappreciate it. still can't get to the sight, fighting is escalating while crucial evidence may will lost with each passing day. a live report ahead. this is kathleen. setting up the perfect wedding day begins with arthritis pain and two pills.
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well, it's too soon to know the impacts of the sanctions but the fighting is only getting
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worse. the wreckage lies in the middle of a war zone. a team of investigators had to turn back before reaching the site. the spokesman was with the team and told me earlier, every day that goes by means the loss of crucial evidence. it's been 12 days since the plane was shot down. joining me now is richard quest, safety analyst david soucie and the author of "why planes crash." david, this long to have, i mean, again, to have human remains out there, michael who himself said who has seen remains for days out there, they finally have people who can deal with remains who can collect them, they have people from the netherlands, australia but they can't get out there. there is a real possibility some remains may disappear. >> yes, that's right. it very well could be from predatory animals, things like that. i hate to say that but they are exposed to that and it has to be done right now and had to be done it were the last ten days
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now. we sent satellite images to michael and he looked at them. there are areas we clearly see there is deceased left there that have not been investigated, no one has been there to look at them and they know wrhere to go and have everything they need to give the dignity to these people that they deserve, but they cannot get there. >> the aviation authorities met to discuss the issue of flying over war zones. what happened, if anything? >> well, they are in a very difficult position because the governments that want to give up sovereignty, the airlines want order interest so they did what they always do, they set up a task force. >> commission. >> a task force. >> not even a commission. >> a task force. >> okay. >> they will report in the next six weeks and there is to be a high-level meeting of the governments in february of next year and the real issue is how to exchange information between all the different parties. i happen to think they may be missing the point.
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i happen to think the real question is not how do you share information but how you actually deal with those countries that either will not or cannot close their air space, for political, military or other reasons. that's the real issue. but iko is so concerned they do not tread on solve earn tones. >> can regulation be done when it comes to sharing information? >> it can and has been. it's been done with manufacturers before. i worked on one with airbus and boeing and working well. the challenge now is not just this information sharing, it's the responsibility of risk assessment. risk assessment is dependant on good information, solid information and as richard pointed out, the states that cannot or will not report that they do have risks, for whatever reason, they can't do it and so
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who is going to step in? the airlines can't go in and figure out what the military is doing in every country they fly over. that's impossible. >> we're talking about what happened in tel aviv where you had the faa saying no, the europeans saying maybe, some flying, some not flying. we have a situation over iraq at the moment. the largest airline in the world says its no longer going to fly over iraq. it's moving its roots elsewhere. other airlines are saying no, it's safe to fly over iraq. it leaves the traveling public with the single question, is it safe or not? the regulators, frankly, are bashing this around hoping to reach a consensus. >> in terms of the crash site, at this stage, though, and again, there is more
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investigators on the ground than ever before, but the this is not going to be any investigation, the likes of which we have seen or the international investigators would like to have. at best, they will photograph things, maybe they will take pieces of wreckage, try to bring them to other locations for examination, but that's about it, right? >> the big thing with this investigation is as miles and i both have talked about, this may be the first digital investigation, the first one that we've had to actually do with photographs and reference photographs on site at the time because that's the only history we have. the on documentation of what we have that was on the ground at that time. >> thank you. the downing of flight 17 calls for making commercial airliners safer and some coming from insiders. mh-17 was flying over an unrestricted flight zone. who should make the call where commercial planes fly and what about arming commercial airliners with anti missile systems.
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both questions being debated. >> reporter: top airline industry leaders from around the world gathering for the civil aviation meeting this, as there are growing calls for improved airline safety in the wake of the downing of malaysia air flight 17. >> the world's airlines are angry. >> reporter: in response to the anger, the group is re-examining a number of safety issues with questions being raised like where is it safe for commercial aircraft to fly and should passenger jets be equipped with missile defense systems? israel's airline installed such a system following an incident in 2002 where two missiles nearly hit a charter jet flying at low altitude above kenya. >> this is the first clear overt and virtually successful attack on civil aviation. >> reporter: soon came calls for u.s. carriers to adopt similar anti missile measures. in 2003, there was the
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commercial airline missile defense act. that proposed legislation called for the pentagon to equip planes with anti missile technology at a cost of $1 million per plane. with nearly 7,000 planes in service, that would run upwards of $7 billion, a cost that was just too high. new york senator charles schumer support that idea then. >> the danger both shoulder-held missiles is now. >> reporter: ten years later, his support has not changed. the $1 million cost of installing a plane with anti missile technology is comparable to outfitting a plane with an in flight entertainment system. >> we can't let this happen to an american passenger plane. he points to technology called the guardian. >> the system sensors automatically detect it and track it. >> reporter: aviation experts say that technology may be fine for low-flying aircraft but not
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developed enough to address what happened to malaysia air 17 which was traveling at some 33,000 feet. instead, they say there is an easier solution. >> i think it sends the operations into areas that are trouble zones. >> this does constitute a problem for airlines because they are always trying to save fuel costs. >> reporter: with airlines like delta spending more on in flight entertainment and southwest spending more on leg room, the public may decide if airlines should pdo more to make them safer. how the deadliest ebola outbreak in history just got even scarier. oh no.
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>> tonight, the ebola outbreak called the deadliest in history took a terrifying turn. an american died after flying to nigeria from liberia where he worked. he was planning to head home to his family in minnesota. he didn't show symptoms until he was in the air. it is the worst nightmare scenario, one of the deadliest viruses on the planet making its way on an airliner and possibly spreading further around the world. pamela brown has more. >> reporter: right now u.s. health officials are seeking anyone who may have had contact with this u.s. citizen, he recently flew from liberia to the nigerian city of lagos and
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became ill with ebola. >> he arrived in lagos by plane. he left, he departed on the plane initially with no symptoms. he reported being symptomatic on arriv arrival. i understand he was vomiting and turned himself over and made it known he wasn't peeling well. >> reporter: with he landed, he was quarantined and died five days later. >> with patrick's death, it hit our front door because he was well-known in the community, like everyone knew him, so everyone feels like they have lost their best friend or brother. >> reporter: his wife telling cnn he came this close to our girls. we all could have been infected. that's what government officials are trying to prevent. >> serious diseases are only a plane ride away. >> reporter: the airline that
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reportedly flue sewer suspended flights to liberia and sierra leone. some tested already for ebola. authorities did not say how many passengers who flew with him have been contacted. with more than 100 ebola deaths, liberia closed some boarders and set up screening check points at airports, the cdc warned health care workers to watch out for any patients that may have recently traveled to west africa and could have contracted the virus. the cdc sent guidance to american air carriers how to identify and deal with passengers and disinfectant aircraft after an infected passenger leaves the plane. >> airline carriercarriers, air crew members can be important in the front line. >> reporter: the disease spread with more than 1,000 cases being
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report in guinea, sierra leone and liberia. more than 6,000 died. the problem is current tests detect ebola only after a patient shows symptoms. fever, sore throat, chills, muscle aches and nausea. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> two other americans infected with ebola are fighting for their lives tonight. nancy writebol and kent brantly of texas are both working on the front line of liberia's capital when they got sick. dr. brantly's wife and children were with him in liberia. they returned to texas before he showed any symptoms of ebola. they're on a 21-fever watch. kent is a friend of the family. he joins me tonight. kent, i understand you've been in contact with dhra brantly's family. what have they been able to tell you? >> i just exchanged a couple of brief e-mails with his wife today.
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basically, to tell her how much i and the rest of the church family, at the southside church of christ love them and are concerned about them. and to ask if there was anything that they needed. and she said she did want to deliver a message, but she was trying to figure out exactly what she wanted to say, and she would get back to me. so that's about the extent of my communication with her. >> what can you tell us about dr. brantly? the work -- his willingness to be this to do this work is extraordinary. >> well, and he's really -- that's a good word. he is an extraordinary guy. he is very gentle and soft-spoken and as you might expect from somebody who became a doctor, he is intelligent. he always had thoughtful and insightful comments to make during our discussions at church.
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but really, if i had to pick one word to describe him above anything else, it would be selfless. he really does care about other people more than he cares about himself. and that is a good explanation for why he chose to go into this work. >> and he was in liberia before the ebola outbreak. he decided it was important he leave his current post and help out with this outbreak. >> right. he and his wife started sending our church about five years ago when he was doing his residency at one of the local hospitals. and made it pretty clear from the very beginning that their intention after his residency was to find a medical mission work that they could participate in. they eventually decided that liberia was the place they wanted to do that, and they went over there last fall. and that was before the ebola outbreak took place.
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my understanding is that when ebola started to become a serious problem there, he volunteered to give up his original assignment at that hospital and be the one that coordinated the ebola treatment facility. >> i mean, i'm so in awe of doctors and nurses who risk their lives in order to help people afflicted with this virus that people don't even know where it comes from. these are true heroes. >> well, i'd agree with you. but that's really the kind of guy he is. as i said before, he cares about other people more than he cares about himself. and he is the kind of guy that says if there is somebody that needs help, and i'm here and i'm able to help, then i'm going to help. >> ken can, i appreciate you taking some time to talk to us. thank you so much. >> all right. thank you. >> sad cases. coming up, a shock discovery on a u.s. air force plane. a dead body. apparently a young stowaway. the plane had been to the part of the world that is in the
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the body of a young man, aapparent stowaway was found in the wheel well of an air force plane in germany. the plane made multiple stopts over multiple days arnold africa before it returned to base. but no one is sure when the
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adolescent got on the plane. >> reporter: when the air force c-130j landed at ramstein in germany, the ground crew discovered a terrible surprise. >> the body of an apparent stowaway was found trapped in a compartment above the aircraft's rear landing gear. the deceased was an adolescent black male of possible african origin. it is unknown when or where the deceased entered the wheel well. >> reporter: even the young man's nationality is a mystery, heightening concerns about the security breach even further. official says the plane left on july 19th for an eight-day mission convict italy, senegal, chad, egypt and tunisia. this much is known. military flights in some parts of africa are exposed to far less than ideal security. this plane was shot when a plane made an emergency landing in uganda just last week and was swarmed by local folks. the local incident is ear live
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similar to one in which a somali-american teenager survived after stowing away in the wheel well of a commercial plane that flew from california to hawaii. and complicating the latest incident even further, the outbreak of deadly ebola that is ravaging some african communities, again raising strong concerns about security. >> laboratory results that were taken from samples from the body confirm negative test results for communicable diseases. and the cause of death as well as the other circumstances surrounding this incident remains under investigation. >> reporter: military official says the young man's presence made no difference in the handling of the plane, and he wasn't even spotted during the initial post flight inspection. but was only discovered when maintenance crews went over the plane more thoroughly later on. tom foreman, cnn. washington. that does it for us tonight. in this special expanded edition of "360." set your dvrs so you can watch
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306 whenever you like. we're back at 11:00 p.m. eastern tonight. right now don lemon with the very latest on "cnn tonight." don? this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. breaking news in the middle east. hamas flat-out rejects calls for a ceasefire with israel, demanding an end to what it calls israel's aggression. but israel says the ball is in hamas' court. violence up close. hamas tv airs video purporting to show militants crawling out of a tunnel inside israeli territory, attacking an israeli military post. israeli soldiers were killed in the attack. more on this video straight ahead. also, where is egypt in this conflict? for many years it was one of the most powerful players in the region, but has a change in government cost the possibility of peace? also, harsh criticism inside israel for secretary of state john kerry over his efforts to broke area ceasefire. is the criticism warranted or it is out of line? plus,