that's it for us tonight. thanks for watching. stay with cnn throughout the night. hello. and thanks for joining us for this special coverage on cnn. >> a big welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. >> just ahead, this hour, dozens of people were rushed to the hospital after an attack at an open-air market in gaza. we have dramatic, new video at the moment of impact. plus, for four days now, a team of investigators has tried to reach the site of the mh-17 plane crash. but each time, they've been

turned back. you'll see what we found when a cnn crew made it to the scene. and every corner of the globe is taking precautions to stop the spread of the deadly ebola virus. the man who investigated the first outbreak nearly 40 years ago explains why there's still no cure. >> we start with shocking and disturbing video of the fighting in the middle east. it was filmed during an attack at an open-air market in northern gaza. hundreds of people were shopping at the time that the explosions began. officials in gaza, in fact, say 17 people were killed. now, i have to give you a warning here. this video is graphic. it is difficult to watch. but we do think it's important for you to see. we're not showing this to make a point about anything being right or wrong or whether we're blaming hamas or the idf. but this does give a clear

picture of the beat-by-beat, moment-by-moment reality of what ordinary people face when war comes to one of the most densely populated places on earth. [ explosion ] [ explosion [ people wailing ]

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[ people wailing ] [ people wailing ] [ people yelling ] >> just a glimpse of the horrors being experienced in gaza right now. martin savage joins us from

jerusalem. we both were just watching this. it is gripping footage. it begins with ambulances tending to victims of a first attack. and we witnessed there the subsequent attacks. what is the idf saying about this? and the attack on a shelter that is raising a lot of concerns. >> first of all, it's horrific. that's just my reaction, looking at that. the idf says both of those incidents which you just described are under investigation. when it comes to the explosion that began earlier in the day at the school, the idf has said they have found their ground forces came under fire. they believe from militants in the area, at the school. and as a result, this is something that israel has always maintained, they immediately returned fire. whether the school is targeted or hit inadvertently, that's under investigation.

regarding the market and what we witnessed there, the israeli military, it's too soon for them to give an account. they have used a line before, which is to say there were many rockets being fired towards israel yesterday, 150 of them. and they were being fired at that time in some cases. it's possible that some of these misfired. and they may have fallen on the market. it's clear that the israeli military is trying discern what happened. the idf is also saying, in the last 48 hours, they have seen these sort of attacks in which israel is being blamed. and they say israel in some of the case had nothing to do with it. in other words, they were implying this is a strategy to blame or to lure israel into launching these attacks where civilians are hit. and they blame hamas for it. insinuating it's some kind of strategy on hamas' part. >> what does that tell us then? over the past three weeks, we've

seen attacks in gaza take place. we've seen the reports of civilians deaths. the u.n. saying 70% to 80% of all of the deaths in gaza, are civilian. we're hearing from israel that perhaps it's the fog of war. they can't be certain. they're firing rockets where rockets are being fired out. now, we have the news that the u.s. is allowing israel to have access to its ammunition. this stockpile of more than $1 billion of ammunition there in the country, that the u.s. has funded. does this give us a sense that israel really is ready to continue this campaign, considering prime minister said as much. this campaign is very popular in israel right now. >> i won't say popular. it is supported. and the reason it's supported is because israel believes through terrorism rockets it's targeting. to your point on the ammunition. i'm not trying to act as an explaining for the israeli

military. you're right. this purchasing or this request to purchase more ammunition is suggesting just as the prime minister has suggested this operation is going to go longer. and maybe expanded. to that end, cnn has just learned that the idf has announced the callup of 16,000, now, additional reservists. that brings to about 86,000 troops that have been called up for this operation. it is a huge number of forces that are being brought to bare. it suggests the same thing. this could go longer. this could get bigger. it certainly does not suggest in any way this is going to be winding down, just yet. >> yeah. and no matter who you believe, the fact remains civilians are dying in this conflict. martin savage, live for us in jerusalem. >> while the u.s. is once again urging israel to do more to protect civilians, it's also supplying its close ally with more ammunition, as you mentioned. to battle the militants. well, the u.s. has approved

israel's request for mortar rounds and ammunition for grenade launchers. a u.s. defense official tells cnn this was not an emergency sale. the supply will come from a billion-dollar stockpile the u.s. keeps in israel. and canada's prime minister is weighing in on the conflict, squarely on the side of israel. stephen harper on wednesday, once again, blamed hamas for the bloodshed in gaza. mr. harper holds the, quote, terrorist organization responsible. he says, they started the conflict. and are keeping it going by seeking to destroy the jewish state. let's get you the latest out of ukraine. the country is warning that russian-backed rebels have set up firing position and placed lined mines along the road to the mh-17 crash site in the eastern part of the country. international investigators say

it was too unsafe to try to reach the wreckage wednesday. we know that's the fourth day in a row they tried to get there. >> very frustrating for the inspectors there. but seeing international nick payton walsh and his team did manage to reach the site. here's his report. >> reporter: the road isn't easy. past shelling, eerie separatist checkpoints. but where it leads is harder still. imputing nothing, by the horror still unresolved. 12 days since mh-17 was blown out of the sky. it remains here, a monument to cruelty. to how 298 soul, some shipped in parts away on a separatist train, have yet to find complete rest. questions left. what or who else did they love? what did they feel in their last moments? silence in these fields is that of a tomb, like sorrow and loss

of isolated it from the war around it. but you really have to stand here and see the things that people want to take with them on holiday and horrifyingly, smell the stench of decay to understand the urgency of relatives of those who died must feel to get inspectors to this site and get some kind of closure. in the power we were there, no separatist inspectors or ukrainian soldiers at this site. just distant smoke, that explains why the convoy has not, for the fourth day running, got here. god save and protect us, the sign asks. not here. still reeking of jet fuel. you see from the heat of the inferno. strangers have tried to mourn. the scene of this crime has been abandoned. evidence tampered with.

what must be shrapnel holes visible in the cockpit's remains. a wallet empties. a cell phone looted. traces of daydreams that fell from the jet stream, into a war whose daily horrors drowned out that that took their lives. blind hatred has yet to find space for the minor dignities they deserve. nick payton walsh. coming up, russia responds to the latest u.s. and european sanctions over ukraine. we told them about this time yesterday. plus, we'll find out which members of putin's inner circle the west is now targeting. that's later in the program. for now, let's take a short break. but still ahead, a top financial agency declares argentina has gone into selective default. we will explain what led to the country's growing financial crisis. and what impact it may have on global markets. so there i was again, explaining my moderate to severe

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welcome back to cnn. the deadline for argentina to avoid its third default, in 25 years, has just passed. argentina's economy minister, seen here, said wednesday that two holdout creditors had rejected an offer he made to settle a payment dispute. and these are his thoughts on

the current situation. listen. >> translator: what the volter funds want, is they need paid more than the 92.4% of the restructure bond holders. this, i have talked about many times. and i have repeated it today, before the fund suing us. it can't be done. can't be done. >> now, it was thought that the nation's banks might pay off those entities. but that didn't materialize. analysts fear a currency devaluation could be coming. that could make inflation even worse and lead to public anger. standard & poor's announced wednesday that argentina was in selective default. >> how did argentina get into this fix? it actually dates back to debt worked up before the country's last crisis. when argentina defaulted in 2001, bond holders were faced with a dilemma.

either accept lower payments, around 30 cents on the dollar, or hold out for the full amount. more than 90% of bondholders cut their losses and took the lower offer. the bond swaps have been paid on time ever since. some bond holders, however, held out. they're demanding the full amount, plus interest, around $1.5 billion. last month, a u.s. judge ruled that if argentina doesn't pay those holdouts, it can't pay its bond swaps today, either. the choice, essentially, pay both or default. so, called the impact of the default in argentina be contagious for other countries, as well? joining us from hong kong is analyst and consultant, peter lewis. thank you for talking with us. peter, this is a strange default, even that argentina is in a position to pay but didn't

because of the u.s. court ruling. is there way this can be resolved, even though the deadline has passed? >> it could, rosemary. there's an incentive to resolve it. even for the bondholders, their weapon is forcing a default. once you've done that, you don't have many bargaining chips left. these holdouts have been trying to get paid out for 30 years. and if argentina does default, they're not going to get paid. there's incentive on them to seek a deal. and from argentina's perspective, default is not good for its economy. it won't be as disastrous as 2001, when there was a deep recession, and bank assets were frozen. unemployment surged to 25%. and people were protesting in the streets. but nevertheless, it will have an effect on the economy. it could protenlly prolong or deepen the recession.

>> so, a bigger picture. i was going to ask you the impact on argentina. let's move beyond argentina to the lest of the latin american economic bloc. and beyond that, globally, what impact could this have going forward? >> it's hard to know. global financial markets are so interconnected to see keep this from what is going on in other countries. this could trigger credit default swaps, which will affect investors in other parts of the world. so far, other emerging market countries have not reacted to this. we saw after the u.s. supreme court gave its judgment in june, on existing government debt in argentina on its 2000 33 bond.

now that it has gone into default, it is possible we could see a reaction elsewhere. so, this is certainly on the radar screens of investors in other emerging market countries, although it's probably not at the top of their list of worries at the moment. >> peter, we're talking about reaction. let's bring up the asia markets. that's where you are, of course. bring up those numbers at this point and get an idea of what sort of reaction. can we bring those up? bring up those numbers. okay. we can see japan's nikkei, up nearly 0.2%. other markets across asia are down. only slightly when you look there. the kospi down 4.2% there, peter. what's your reading of that when you see that? it doesn't seem to be an extraordinary response, does it? >> not at all. asian markets are focused on the u.s. interest rates. we saw u.s. gdp numbers come out

last night, better than expected. if interest rates in the u.s. start to rise quicker than expected, that certainly will have an impact. that's probably the number one issue for investors out here. >> peter lewis. many thanks to you for joining us and bringing your perspective on this. coming up after the break, an american family makes a very important historical find. we'll tell you why this amazing, new find is something new for this group of treasure hunters.

let's check the weather now. after a disappointing start to india's summer monsoons, heavy rains have finally arrived over much of the country with devastating consequences. >> we're watching all of this. that was the fear, wasn't it? that we knew the monsoon rains were coming later and later. we expected when they did, they would really come with a wallop. >> that's what happened there. well said. when you take too much of anything, too much of a good thing, quickly becomes a bad thing. that's exactly what has transpired here. a very quiet start, rosemary just says there, when it comes to the monsoon season. a reference to the seasonal reversal in the winds where the winds come from the bay of bengal and the moisture, as well. thunderstorms abound at this hour. the issue was, over the last 24

to 48 hours, significant rainfall, just south of mumbai. and i want to show you the footage of this area to see what's happened. 17 people have lost their lives across this area. just southwest of mumbai. up to 200 people feared trapped here. some 44 homes were flattened by this mudslide. and this mudslide occurred around 4:00 in the morning local time. you would imagine a lot of people asleep when this occurred, giving them no chance to prepare when the rumbles began with the rainfalls across the season. india, monsoon season, it affects the livelihood of over 60% of the world's population, a vast majority across east asia, when it comes to the agricultural output. and you look at the perspective here. rainfall totals, exceeding over 100 millimeters. four inch, upwards of six inches around mumbai. this is in the past several

days. these landslide scenarios, common this time of year. look when you have a tremendous amount of rainfall in a short time period, the oil becoming saturated, the weight cannot be held here on the slopes. and the collapse of the soil out there. and you get the blockage to take place upriver, causing more flooding upstream. that's what happened in this region. we know 17 people losing their lives because of it. it is kind of different. it's a double-edged sword, when it comes to rainfall that is needed. but it becomes deadly in this region. >> people getting inundated with all of the rains. >> thank you. >> thanks, pedram. now, a family of american treasure hunters, you know this story's going to be good. as literally struck gold. let's show you eric schmidt, now, finding a gold, religious artifact, apparently used to carry communion wafers. the story it could tell. it is being transported by a

spanish ship that sank off florida's coast some 300 years ago. you see their reaction. >> very happy family. schmidt and his family of pressure hunters have been on a hot streak lately. last year, they helped discover more than $750,000 worth of similar treasure. we don't want to leave out that the family's treasure hunting ship is called "the arr booty." >> the what? they couldn't have named it something easy, could they? the latest item has not been appraised. but the family says it will be highly coveted, as well. the ship wreck is one of the most important in history. a great story here, too. whale watchers in australia were treated to a spectacular show, after a humpback whale gave birth on wednesday. the baby whale tested the waters right off australia's sunshine coast. this calf may not look large

next to its mother. but newborns can weigh 900 kilos. >> awesome footage there. it doesn't take long for the mother to give birth once she's due. and the next few months, thousands of whales will be born. whale watching season runs until november. very special experience if you can be out there on the water and see the majestic creatures. >> and the aerial shots are extraordinary. when we come back, more on the middle east. find out how average israelis feel about the military operation in gaza. stay with us.

those of you watching in the u.s. and all around the world, welcome back to cnn. i'm errol barnett. >> and i'm rosemary church. gaza health officials are reporting that shelling next to a u.n. civilian shelter has left several dead and wounded. it's da it's calling out more reservists. >> russian-backed rebels have

placed land mines on the road to the crash site. cnn has not been able to inspectly confirm that. researchers have not been able to get to the site for four days. the pan america airline will not fly in and out of liberia and sierra leone, due to concerns about the ebola outbreak. this comes as the government carries out aggressive new measures. all schools have been ordered to close. and markets along border areas, shut down. the deadline for argentina to escape default just passed in the last half hour. government agencies were unable to reach a deal with creditors. currency devaluation is a real possibility. and that could lead to disastrous inflation. . we return to our top story, what's happening in the middle east. and the sun is now up in gaza.

it's 7:30 in the morning, where most residents spent the night without any power. >> yeah. many of them waking up after another difficult evening. much of gaza doesn't have electricity. this comes after a power plant was heavily damaged by an israeli strike. gaza health officials, meantime, say the death toll there tops 1,300 in the 3 weeks of fighting. israel has lost 56 soldiers and 3 civilians, including a guest worker. two attacks wednesday sparked scruti scrutiny, prompting the white house to do more to protect civilians. >> what happened at an open-air market, at least 17 people were killed there. israel says it's investigating and that it's possible the market could have been hit by hamas rockets fired towards israel, that fell back into gaza. but we don't know the source at this point. >> there is a lot of frustration, emoting and frustration out of those in the

u.n. ban ki-moon is condemning another attack on a shelter, housing displaced civilians. he says it demands accountability and justice. >> the u.n. blames israel for the strike, that killed 20 people and wounded more than 120. kyle penhall visited the scene of the attack. and his report contains disturbing images. >> reporter: northern gaza, around 5:00 a.m. the school and shelter for 3,000 people just attacked. a u.n. employee took these cell phone images, breathing heavily. he races classroom to classroom. body count by flashlight, mutilated limbs swaddled in bloody rags. [speaking foreign language]. >> reporter: we saw the shells when they hit and shrapnel was falling like rain. i was so scared and the school

filled with smoke. we poured water in our eyes just to see. i want to give you a point of reference, how big this hole is. the diameter is about the length of an ordinary broomstick. another round through a classroom. opening a hole about the same size as the other. witnesses say this is some of the shrapnel that peppered the school. they notified of the coordinates of the shelter, just eight hours before it was hit. cnn asked the israeli military if their forces fired on the school that was supposed to be a safe haven. >> what we found is there were mortars launched from nearby the school and there was a cross fire and indeed they engaged those mortar firing. we're currently reviewing the outcome and tragic footage that we've seen from this area.

we haven't ruled out it was a hamas mortar that landed within the premises. >> reporter: un investigators say they have sufficient evidence to conclude israel was to blame. >> based on the initial elements that we have, clear indications that we have three projectiles hit the school and on presenting and analyzing the pieces of shrapnel, we believe that we have all the elements in place to conclude it was israeli artillery fire. >> reporter: israel has batteries aimed at gaza, these huge guns are capable of firing 4 3 kilo shells. israel admitted misfiring a mortar into another un school shelter less than a week ago. but the israeli military says the explosion could not have

caused deaths. a cnn visit showed multiple shrapnel marks and large quantities of blood. hospital staff said 16 civilians died in the incident. >> enough is enough. now measures have to be taken. people who go to these places expect that they go there because they will be safe and here is the confirmation, it appears there is nowhere to be safe and measures have to be taken by the defense forces to ensure much better protection. >> reporter: the u.n. condemned hamas for violating the worlds of war, accusing fighters or storing rockets in three other vacant schools. >> whatever was the case with these weapons, certainly cannot be used as a justification by anyone to explain why another school in which the people were sheltered displaced people were sheltered had been targeted. >> reporter: the israeli military says it does not deliberately target civilians.

at the school gates, this bloody footnote to the tragedy. donkeys and horses had very dirt poor families here when their homes turned into a battle field, but war plotted in behind them. karl pehnole, cnn, gaza. >> israel's government is trying to diffuse criticism over civilian deaths in gaza. it tweeted on wednesday that it delivered millions of liters of fuel and 750 tons of food and medicine into gaza. >> inside israel, there's overwhelming support for the military's operations against hamas. we have more. >> reporter: from the tel aviv seashore to the israeli/gaza border and beyond. the support is clear -- we're with you. hebrew signs say it with words,

the people prove it with deeds. volunteers cook free meals, the sound of war booms behind them, in easy striking distance from gaza. this is who they're doing it for -- the soldiers on the battlefield. the message -- we are with you. two opinion polls done to measure support for israel's operation protective edge revealed that up to 95% of israeli jews are against a cease-fire. what they really want is hamas dealt with once and for all. >> hamas is a terrorism. and terrorism, they hurt every corner in the world. we just have to put -- take them out from gaza. >> reporter: rezy says he's happy with living side by side with palestinians, but hamas is a different thing. netanyahu's plan to destroy the tunnel system in gaza got a pat on the back from tel aviv. >> we have to continue.

we have a lot of work to do there. otherwise they will find a way to come inside. you know all the tunnels, and i don't know the names, and we have to destroy everything. >> reporter: for this young lady it's deeply personal. she's to be married soon, about you are he fiance is a soldier on the front lines. he's in gaza somewhere, and we're afraid, she says. we shouldn't stop fighting, we shouldn't compromise. we sad down with a former head of mo sad, israel's top intelligence agency, about what it would take to fulfill the sentiment. >> it calls for conquering the gaza. >> reoccupation? >> reoccupation, no doubt. >> reporter: he says the price of that will be higher, costing lives and money. >> it means we will have to stay in gaza with relatively largely deployed forces for two, three, four years. >> reporter: the former spy chief initially did not support the position to put boots on the ground in gaza, but he admits

something to us spy chiefs rarely do. >> now i understand that i was wrong, because only with this ground operation we can't discover those tunnels. >> reporter: political analyst marcus chef says the support is remarkable. >> i can't remember an administration which has had so much support from the israeli people. >> reporter: but the polls did not include palestinian with his israeli citizenships, sometimes referred to as israeli-arabs. those we spoke with were horrified and wanted the offensive to stop in gaza. we do know that peace rallies against the war, those were met with protesters who strongly disagreed and wanted israel to keep pounding gaza to get rid of hamas. >> we cross to the other big story we have this week. the downing of mh-17.

russia is fighting back against sanctions. >> a top legislator tweeted that the sanctions would hurt barack obama's legacy. >> the e.u. has publicly named the target of its list of targets of russia. among them are associates of vladimir putin. >> one of the most prominent individuals. a long-time friend and sparring partner of mr. putin. his companies have been beneficiaries of state contracts. >> there's mr. putin's deputy chief of staff. he favored the separatists. >> and a state-owned company manufactures anti-aircraft weapons. >> and the russian national

commercial banks which the u.s. says has taken over banking operations in crimea. five of the six leading russian financial institutions are now on this new sanctions list. >> the threats from europe and the u.s. are not hurting president vladimir putin's popularity in russia. at an all-time high. >> you could argue the threats are having the opposite effects in russia. and groups of volunteers are lending their support to the pro-russian rebels in ukraine. >> reporter: a donations tent for the people. hardly noticed as life bustles past. it's hard to get a sense of the political heat that russia is in for its role in eastern ukraine, as they bask in the summer sun. and then, there is the odd reminder.

here, down in moscow's side streets, a patch of rebel-held area. there's a delivery, sealed wooden boxes. humanitarian supplies we're told. no weapons. to add to the food supplies, the piles of donated clothes, all en route to eastern ukraine. this local shows me a clip from a station who is similar no n style to russia's 24. this was monday. terrible images of civilians killed after an apartment block was shelled. the city council confirming this building came under ukrainian fire on monday. you need to watch this to understand that the ukrainiaian army is not dropping flowers. these women don't want to be

identified. putin has nothing to do with this, this woman says. it was the ukrainiaian army tha started it. here, they want russia's president to send in troops. to end a conflict they still firmly believe is a fight against fascism. today's bloody rebellion framed by the paranoias of the world war ii past. still ahead for you, the current ebola epidemic in west africa is the deadliest. but this disease has struck dozens of times. find out how the first outbreak started when we come back. ♪

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it's closed schools and put nonessential government staff on leave. it's suspended flights out of liberia and sierra leone. >> authorities are watching the epidemic very closely. hong kong has not received reports of ebola. but hospitals in the city are on alert. >> and in the u.k., officials have discussed how to handle it if it hits that country. what the u.s. authorities are doing about it. >> reporter: as the deadly ebola virus moves across west africa, concern of it spreading further mounts. two peace corps volunteers are in isolation. and under observation before they can return to the u.s. the peace corps announced it is pulling out hundreds of its volunteers from the countries

effected by ebola and returning them to the u.s. and the centers for disease control is considering raising the travel warning to the highest level. advising americans against any nonessential travel. >> there's a possibility of somebody flying in from africa or some place. >> reporter: as two american aid workers stricken with ebola in l liberia are showing improvement, they are evacuating personnel out of that country. the son of one of the aid workers spoke on the "today" show. >> she is expressing a few symptoms. she's able to move around on her own. and they're getting lots of fluids into her. >> reporter: the disease claimed the life of a minnesota father of three patrick sawyer. he flew and became violently ill as he flew to nigeria. his widow says she spoke with him days before he died.

>> he was visiting his sister. she was ill. and he had helped care for her. and so he contracted it that way. they didn't know it was ebola, because ebola displays other symptoms like miliaria symptoms, so they thought she may have malaria. if he known, he would have definitely taken better precautions. >> reporter: liberia shut down some boarders and closed all of its schools and health officials in certain west african countries are screening in bound and out bound airline passengers and the cdc is working with them to show people how to protect themselves from ebola. the cdc with these isolation pods should it need to transport anyone that needs to be brought back to the u.s. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> now, the current ebola

epidemic is centered in west africa. but the disease was first discovered elsewhere. >> one of the scientists told us how the outbreak began. >> reporter: it was here in the democratic republic of congo, then zaire, that the ebola virus was found. >> we looked at the register to look through it in the periods when the outbreak was occurring, to see if could find any patients with the diagnosis that might be compatible with the diagnosis of ebola. >> reporter: professor david hamin was part of the team that investigated the first outbreak. and he says it all began with a school master who may have got infected after butchering an animal he bought from a local market.

>> in the outpatient department there were only four needles and syringes. they were not sterilized between use. and they were taken into the maternity. >> reporter: the first outbreak occurred in the hospital, where he says poor hygiene was common place. within three months, the hospital closed down. 280 people had died, including many of its health workers. >> health workers began to get infected. they were infected and they were the source of the virus to their family members and out into the community. so, this was an outbreak that shouldn't have occurred and wouldn't have occurred if hospital practices had been the way they should have been. >> reporter: since then, there have been some ten outbreaks of ebola. 3,140 reported cases. and more than 2,000 deaths. throughout, the symptoms have remained the same, silent.

but when it hits, it's swift and usually deadly. four decades on since that first virus was discovered of ebola. why no cure? >> there's no drugs that are known to be effective against ebola. but there's much research going on. we understand a lot about the disease. we understand how it can be stopped. the mystery still remains as to exactly where it comes from in nature an how it gets from nature into humans. >> reporter: it's critical, then, among other things, to maintain a clean, and disinfected environment. quarantines and individual lens. experts say they're key to containing a killer virus. it's always the same old story, isn't it? in the hospital scene, you have to make sure everything is sterile. it's fascinating. >> if proper procedures were followed, we wouldn't be in the situation we are now. you're exactly right.

that proper sanitation, in what region and the conditions is key. >> still a problem to this day, in parts of the world. and in the united states, as well. still instances like that. >> you're right. we will take a short break now. just ahead, people in the u.k. will soon get an upclose look at a groundbreaking, new technology. would you climb into a car that drives itself? the details after this short break.

oh no. who are you? daddy, this is blair, he booked this room with priceline express deals and saved a ton. i got everything i wanted. i always do. he seemed nice. what do we think of driverless cars? >> i wouldn't do it. >> i might. folks will be able to decide very soon. they will be hitting the roads in britain for some test runs. authorities say cities across the u.k. can bid for a part of a $17 million program to host the trials. they will begin within six months. >> and driverless cars are guided by a system of sensors and cameras, all very good while they work. they're already under going tests in several other

countries, including the u.s. and japan. >> you can see some people there testing it out. you're right. it's all fun and games until something breaks. >> we have had experiences when our cars break down. you drive an electric car. you're halfway there. i'm considering it. >> it still requires a person. but you're considering these things. >> i'm not ready to go there. >> before we get driverless. >> i was going to say, errol, you would go on that car because you have an electric car. we do. we have the type that would take the risk potentially. absolutely. we'll talk weather right now, guys. talking about the united states. pretty warm weather set up around the western united states. pretty impressive heat wave. you slice the u.s. in half. the yellow and greens, below average readings. across portions of the northern american u.s., we're talking about 40s fahrenheit.

particularly what you expect in the month of october. not this time of year. you look out west. we take you out there for the readings going to be closer to 100 around phoenix. memphis, tennessee, the average temperature, well in the upper 80s. thursday, 76 degrees fahrenheit. that's an october 15th-like temperature. in dallas, your temperature is equivalent to what you would see in september. same in st. louis. atlanta, 84 fahrenheit. that is something you would expect in the middle portion of september. enjoy these cooler readings ahead of us here in the next couple of days in the eastern u.s. out west, we talked about temps in phoenix, above average. 111. 80 in los angeles, should be about 74 fahrenheit. even seattle, outdoing los angeles, with temperatures in the 80s. and actually, the driest period of the year. across portions of the western pacific. we have a couple of tropical features. one of them, a high probability

to become a tropical storm. it was a typhoon as it moves across portions of guam. rainfall totals at anderson air force base, remarkable. that's about a foot of rainfall in a 24-hour period. winds, roughly 16 miles per hour. the storm system over open waters, should threaten portions of japan. that's a week away. plenty of time for preparations. we leave you with photographs coming out of the united kingdom. we take you to london. this is the star flier ride. errol, if you've been here, 220 feet off the ground. it is the south bank center. one of the largest art centers in the world. it's very nice couple of days around london. >> that ride is relatively new. you see the london eye in the distance in the background. there's so many people there all the time. >> absolutely.

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