>> look at him high-fiving, yes, yes, i did that. no big deal. >> one of those you throw up and you typically to go far under the basket or far over and people crossed their fingers and hope. not damian lillard. >> very nice, very nice. >> i would have to granny thank you so much. for being here this morning. thank you for starting your morning with us. >> our "new day" special coverage continues right now. okay. moving from sports to some other really serious news this morning, and we just want to say thank you so much for being with us. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm miguel marcus in for the hopefully vacationing victor blackwell. welcoming you in from around the world. 6:00 in the morning, this is "new day saturday." in the middle east, at the center of the turmoil, an israeli soldier still missing ar

a firefight that shattered the cease-fire intended to last through the weekend. >> israel second lieutenant goldin was captured saying if they want to resolve the conflict he musten unconditionally released as soon as possible. >> hamas admits they have him. >> casualties are heartbreaking. congress approves another 225 million dollars for israel's iron dome defense system, meanwhile. >> egypt's president saying today his country is ever to allow assistance into gaza and launch new negotiations could be the best hope for quelling the violence. israel historically has taken the capture of its soldiers seriously, gone to extreme lengths to secure their return, as you would expect. >> as any country would, i'm sure. martin savidge is in jerusalem anchoring coverage in the crisis

in the middle east. what's the latest on this missing soldier? >> good morning. just 24 hours ago we had high hopes i certainly did, with the humanitarian cease-fire it would hold and we would move forward. that did not happen. it's gone horribly wrong and now this israeli soldier with many questions about this disappearance. i want to bring in the spokesperson for -- no. okay. then we'll wait. i was going to toss to the idf spokesperson but we're working to get him on the line. the concern is, of course, how did this soldier disappear? and like so much in this conflict, there are conflicting accounts about his disappearance. the israelis maintain after the cease-fire went into play, about 90 minutes, there was an attack on one of its units working in southern gaza demolishing the tunnels we've heard so much about. they say at that time the militants launched a terror attack, used a suicide bomber that in that process, two israeli soldiers were killed and another one missing. it was thought perhaps he had

been captured. ma maa has smaus -- hamas is denying this. that would be a drat vigreat vi of the cease-fire and it is, after all, what israel has maintained, can you not trust hamas. that's why this has become full-on efforts to try to locate their missing young man. meanwhile, hamas says it wasn't them. there were over 200 strikes by the idf on gaza yesterday and the casualties of civilians said to be over 1,600. i understand we do have lieutenant colonel peter lerner. thank you, sir, for joining us. where do things stand as far as trying to locate your missing soldier? >> thank you, martin. we have currently not changed our goals of this mission, and we are still primarily focused on the tunnel issues. indeed, the abduction of hadar

goldin is absolutely paramount and we need to emphasize and we are to locate his position. we have forces on the ground. we have extensive intelligence activities in order to try and get that lead that will bring us to find him. >> and how do you know if he's alive, and how would you know if he is actually held by hamas? >> well, this is a modus ob prand dop prand oprandi of hamas. that's prime marry indication -- >> okay. i'm sorry. i've lost the lieutenant colonel now. so thank you very much for joining us at this point i guess i'll pass it back to atlanta with miguel and christi. >> all righty. martin, thank you so much.

sorry about that audio problem, but we certainly appreciate all of the information coming from you out of jerusalem right now. so we're obviously going to keep up on that story, and we'll be talking to several people throughout the morning who are involved in this conversation between jerusalem and hamas. >> and it is interesting. the timing of all of this, between iraq -- between hamas and israel and the back and forth as to what actually happened. i was actually very interested to hear what preeter lerner hado say. >> we'll hear from him later in the show. in the fight between israel and hamas it's easy to lose the big picture here. the fundamentals of who these players are, what are their goals. so we have a look for you at hamas. >> it's cnn's paula hancocks who looks at how the group is formed and what it is exactly that they want.

>> reporter: propaganda video, recruiting tools. call it what you will, but hamas wants israel and the world to see its military might. created in 1987, its name means islamic resistance movement, formed specifically to fight the israeli occupation. but within the lawless territory of gaza, it became so much more. >> hamas began to expand its social and economic reach to include social welfare programs, subsidies and a variety of other educational and cultural programs for palestinians in gaza, so it played and still to this day has a political dimension, an administrative and social dimension and, of course a military one. [ sirens ] >> reporter: april, 1994, hamas carries out its first suicide bombing in israel. an attack in a northern city kills eight. it is just the beginning. hundreds more israeli citizens will be killed by hamas, mostly

in suicide bombings. a deadly pattern that leads the u.s. and others to label hamas a terrorist group. [ chanting ] >> reporter: a moment of legitimacy for hamas. 2006, winning democratic palestinian elections in a landslide victory. it is one of the first islamist groups in the world to win political office. >> this is a new beginning for palestinians. >> it's the decision of the people. >> reporter: but the west refused to deal with a terrorist organization. experts estimate hamas has a fighting force of some 10,000. short and medium-ranged rockets handmade within gaza, longer projectiles smuggled in from iran, the u.s. said. millions of dollars of financial aid have largely dried up, and

cata is a sports the group. through this israel tightened its hold on the territory controlling what goes in, restricting who comes out. it is this blockade hamas wants completely lifted. a wish shared by 4 million palestinians and human rights groups, a wish israel says it can mot grant as long as the group on the other side of the border refuses to recognize its right to exist. paula hancocks, cnn, new york. now, today one of two americans infected with the deadly ebola virus is set to arrive here in the u.s., and that patient will receive treatment at a hospital right near atlanta. we'll see how that hospital is getting ready for it. plus, the first big group of experts arrive at the crash site of flight 17. the job ahead is a daunting one. we'll give you the latest from that region. ♪ [music] defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old.

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only two of the 298 souls aboard crashed malaysia airlines flight 17 have been dent fideni. dutch officials warn, this process could be months. >> the investigation into the shootdown may take longer. officials are scouring the only recently accessed site still identifying human remains and cataloging plane debris. >> cnn law enfoercement analyst joining us now. talking about broader picture, when it comes to who is responsible here, you said last hour, tom that we may have the information we need to determine what took the plane down already nap it was a missile. if we can't determine who was at the control panel to do so, does that mean that this crash goes not only unanswered in terms of

some sort of consequence, but that, you know, putin or this rebel group that serve just off the hook? >> that's exactly what it means, christi, as far as i'm concerned. he will be off the hook, and i think what putin the counting on is that, you know, a few short months ago, the world was outraged when he took over crimea. you don't even hear about that anymore. they've already given it up. he has crimea, and i think these counting on a few short months from now in the future, who will think about the plane and care about it anymore? when it starts to get cold in europe in late autumn, the people there will be thinking about their energy requirements more so than the debris lying in the ukraine field. >> wow. >> tom, with all the fighting near that crash site, and it only seems to be heating up, how much time at the very minimum, do investigators need in that area to get what they need, to figure out not only where the remaining victims are, but what

exactly happened on that plane, or the best idea of what happened on that plane? >> well i think in a way they won't need a long time to figure out the plane. the problem that brought down the plane. and they may already have enough debris to do that with, but the other sprob problem is that the recovery of all of the victims is going to mean lifting heavy items of the plane, heavy sections of it, off the ground, and that's going to require heavy equipment, cranes and trucks to do that, because there's probably human remains under that debris. under the huge pieces that won't be recovered until they lift the pieces off the ground. >> you know that these families are watching saying, somebody has to be held accountable. the u.s. has already imposed three or four rounds of sanctions. do you know, tom, of any sanctions that would actually rattle putin? >> i can't think of any that actually would, and i think the problem here that we need to keep in mind is that the more

sanction, the phrase i've heard, as we must make the russian people pay for this so they'll put pressure other than putin, it doesn't work that way. the more harm that comes to the people economically, the more they stand by their leader and the more they believe that what he says is true. it's us against them. it's russia against the rest of the world's in a way, the sanctions in a certain sense kind of backfire in the long run, at least politically, for putin in his own country. >> and quickly, tom, because of the situation heating up around between the rebels and the ukrainian army, do you think that this investigation is just going to be a -- a footnote at this point, and won't ever truly be investigated properly? >> no, it won't be investigated properly, because in order to do that you don't just need to look at the debris and figure out the cause of the aircraft failure to stay in the sky. you need to find out who caused it. and in order to do that, that takes thousands of interviews of the people involved in this, and you know, there's every reason

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the first patient has a structurally isolated unit designed to treat people with serious infectious diseases. one of only four in the country. the second patient is also expected to be treated at emory. no time frame has been given for that arrival. >> and two, two protesters have said for week, the chokehold death of a queens man busted for selling loose cigarettes is a homicide. the examiner's office says the chokehold administered by a police officer along with chest compressioning on the ground led to the victim's death. no charges filed yet, but the investigation is ongoing. >> number three, an infant in hurricane city, utah died after being left alone inside a hot car. police say it was an 11-month-old girl who was in her car seat yesterday with the windows rolled up for what they are calling "a substantial period of time." the investigation is ongoing, but detectives say a family member was somehow involved here. >> shocking.

in china, 65 people are dead after an explosion at an automotive factories earlier this morning. 150 people also hurt. investigators say flames may have ignited dust inside a wheel hub facility there. the factory supplies parts to u.s. automaker general motors. and number five, president obama says the u.s. "crossed a line" when it tortured al qaeda detainees after the 9/11 attacks. a report on the cia's controversial interrogation program will be rees leased soon and the reported says the treatment of terrorism suss stects amounts to torture. cia has denied that allegation. back now to the crisis in the middle east, and an israeli soldier still missing after a firefight that destroyed a planned 72-hour cease-fire. israel claims second lieutenant

hardar goldin was captured by hamas. >> martin savidge is anchoring our coverage of the middle east there. martin what have you learned this morning? >> reporter: hey, christi. you know, of course, a great deal of concern in israel for the whereabouts of this missing soldier prp i want to go back to lieutenant colonel peter lerner joining us from tel aviv, with israel's defense forces and this soldier is listed as m.i.a. what does israel believes happened to this young man? >> well, in the midst of the cease-fire, second lieutenant hadar goldin was indeed abducted, and because basically what happened was terrorists came out with a suits belt, carriedous a suicide attack with him a number of armed terrorists that shot at the forces and in the immediate aftermath, hadar

was missing. we know he went down into the tunnel. they took him back down into a tunnel and this is the reality we're facing today. i would like to point out that our main submission to deal with these tunnels -- sorry. >> i was going to say, hamas is maintaining they do not have this soldier as a captive, and i'm wondering, why would they say that if it was not true? >> i don't know. perhaps you should ask them why are they saying this, but we know that this is exactly the modus operandi. they've tried to do it at least five or six times during the course of this mission to try an abduct a soldier or soldier body parts. something they've been doing throughout the course of this operation. what it does go to show, though, our mission against these tunnels exemplifies our concern. the easy infiltration of israel's borders via these tunnels giving these terrorists a springboard into our

communities. i was speaking to some soldiers a few days ago, and they were clearly voicing their determination to deal with this problem. they understand the importance of the mission and they feel the support of the public in israel. >> and it was said prior to all of this that it appeared that israel had pretty much discovered most of the tunnels and was affectively destroying many of them. where does that stand, and does this incident change the thinking of how many tunnels there may be? >> well, we're not 100% certain of how many, but indeed we have progressed, and exposed over 30 of these tunnels. destroyed most of them. just last night we detonated four more tunnels, and it is an extremely complex mission we are continuing to do. you know, this is a -- a situation which we need to try and be as positive as possible, that we have actually dealt with most of these tunnels with most

of this threat, so that they cannot use it in order to ill fi infiltrate israel. we need to have a 100% effort. >> lieutenant colonel peter lerner, thank you very much for joining us this morning, and it is true that the tunnels here have really dominated, at least from the israeli mind-set, what this mission is all about. it was really only 24 hours ago that we hopeful there was going to be a humanitarian cease-fire. it actually had begun before all of this happened. egypt was key in all this, because that was the next step where this process was going to go, where palestinians representatives, israeli representatives and egyptian leaders would sit down to try to hammer out a cease-fire. ressa is there and i understand the president of egypt was talking about this process today. does it look like it can still go forward? >> reporter: well, they're optimistic behind the scenes but as this point, martin, no indication that any talks are going to happen among the

warring factions here in cairo. a short time ago, egyptal president el sissi wrapped up a joint news conference with a visiting italian prime minister. we were eager to see if he would mention the u.n. proposed cease-fire supposed to be in effect today but obviously fell apart yesterday. many were surprised he did not make reference to that specific u.n. proposed cease-fire. instead he went back to egypt's proposed cease-fire that was offered back in july 14th, you'll jected it after complaining they were not consulted when it comes to that cease-fire and also that egypt did not include hamas' demands in the cease-fire and only israels. even so, today in the news conference president el sissi suggested this. it's not clear why he didn't

make reference to the u.n. proposed cease-fire and went back to the egypt proposed cease nyr no one is talking about. talking to the spokesperson of the president, they say they're still making an effort to get the warring factions to come to cairo. some palestinian officials are reportedly coming but israeli leaders, no word that they have plans to come, and obviously, the fighting continuing with the israeli soldier kidnapped, those are huge factors that are complicating matters as well. >> they're really driving circumstances forward. reza sayah in tie roe, thank you for that update. we should point out, the conflict continues to grind on amidst all the searching to find the missing soldier. israel says it carried out 200 strikes against targets in gaza within the last 24 hours. the death toll in gaza is now over 1,600. back to miguel and christi in atlanta. >> thank you to you, martin, and

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atlanta's emory hospital are prepare forge the arrival of two ebola-infected americans. that disease is spreading so rapidly in sierra leone and othernaries in africa, people are on edge. >> the world health organization says several hundred killed, more than 1,300 killed in recent weeks. living and working in liberia and owns a business there, but her company is closed due to the outbreak. how are you and thank you for being with us. can you give us a sense of what life is like on the ground there right now? >> right now, life is so tense, it's kind of boring, actually, because the only thing we can think to talk about is ebola, how to prevent it, will there be a cure and when question get back to the normal way of living our lives. >> so was it your decision to close the business or mandated by the government? >> it was my decision to close,

just for a few days. just to see how things played out. now that i'm headed to america, actually, i think we're going to close until we can see that we get a handle on this situation. >> and what are they telling you? what's the best advice can they give you? to close businesses, or do they want people just to remain aware and not go to areas where there might be infected individuals? >> well, the main piece of advice we're given is just to be careful. take the necessary precautions. any businesses you go to now they have hand-washing stations set outside. our business, outside, we have signs and posters for everybody to read about how not to get ebola. so we definitely want to live as normal a life as possible but definitely have to take the measures to make sure we're not spreading the disease. >> you mentioned you're coming to america. are you trying to gelt out of the area for a while, and what is your intent? >> well, my main concern with being in liberia at this time is

if anything else were to happen to me i would not be able to go to the hospitals for treatment. i don't believe i will get ebola. the numbers are very low, if you think about how many -- we're a country of 4 million people and have about 300, 350 cases. so i don't believe i'll get ebola, but in the event i have a car accident or something else happens, i don't want to go to the hospital, because that is where i would potentially get infected. >> do you know anyone who's been infected and what are the precautions the airlines will take before you travel to the u.s.? there are precautions in effect for europe, for example. >> yes. i don't know anybody who has gotten ebola. i do know somebody who fell into a coma for something unrelated and was not able to receive the proper treatment in liberia. the airlines are taking all the necessary precautions and we're not able to fly to ghana, we're not able to flip to nigeria from liberia anymore. when we get to the airports they check us for fevers and other ebola symptoms.

we're not able to board planes if we have symptoms because we don't want to spread the disease. >> sure. are you traveling with flanybod to america and do you see -- >> myself and other people who are concerned about the same thing. >> so you're all -- and where -- where is everybody going when they travel? are they -- >> home. i'm coming to atlanta. europe. wherever. wherever they can get a flight to. >> wow. >> and -- tell me, so if somebody comes -- i mean, these two victims coming to the u.s. now what is it like there? you say it's crazy and concerning, but if you come down with a cough or a cold, does everybody kind of go into hyperactive mode and quarantine that person? >> well, you take note of the signs, because a lot of these symptoms present themselves like malaria and typhoid and we're not just assuming it's malaria

or ttyphoid. we're assuming it could be ebola. it's like a -- >> can you help us understand how this has affected people economically where you are? >> absolutely. i can't necessarily afford to close down my shop, but i can't afford to be open and nobody is shopping either. it's part of the precautions. a lot of businesses are open. there are hand-washing stations everywhere, as i said earlier. we're trying not to spread the disease. people are putting the steps in place in order to not spread ebola unnecessarily. >> thank you so much for bringing us a sense of what it's like there. good luck with your travels, and thanks for taking the time to talk with us today. >> thank you. >> wow. >> thank you. >> sure. take good care. >> an extraordinary situation there in. a window of relative calm at the flight 17 crash site but it

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calm could last. here's cnn's nick paton walsh. >> reporter: the skyline near mh-17's crash site didn't bode well for inspector trying to work there en masse. the front lines changing so fast here. we drove into something extraordinary. the ukrainian army just two mile it's from the wreckage. they'd been saying they're advancing towards the crash site for derricks bays, buts that is official visual confirmation the ukrainian army is now two miles away from that crash site. and then, ground rockets in their wake, the fighting consistent as we neared the crash site where so many souls have found so little dignity. but under the shade of the trees, gathered in a moment of respectful silence was a site so many had waited two weeks for. the full complement of dutch and australian inspectors finally here. >> we are on a very special

place, and in a very special time on this field of remembrance. a lot of greech isief is attach this place. >> we are expecting to have search dogs come in the near future. other technologies like uavs and other things we will use to try to maximize our time and task. >> reporter: artillery, though, the backdrop. >> step into the padding, you'll be stepping into the areas we're trying to work. we ask you not to do that. guys, you'll get plenty of shots. >> reporter: do you hear that? >> sure. >> reporter: all vital. the relatives of the 298 people who died on mh-17 waited ober two weeks for this moment, for this work to begin in earnest. one key question remains. how consistent, how thorough can they be here with the noise of artillery still on the horizon?

80 bodies could still lie out around here at the mercy of the elements, even fire. these pictures showing one piece of plane wreckage in a field scorched by fire just on thursday. we don't know what caused it. vital work has begun in these fields, but no answer it yields can undo the small and final indignities inflicted here. all righty. we have nick paton walsh on the phone with us. nick, can you give an indication what things are like there at this hour? >> reporter: we understand from a tweet from the osce military mission arranging the access for dutch and australian police that they've returned to the site again today. 70 experts and 8 members of that monitoring team accompanied, it seems, by two sniffer dogs, there to try and assist in that sad task of finding more human remains that are still there. we know on the first day, two days ago, when a small recon team reached the site, they were

able to table 25 samples of dna. we saw yesterday how the sad, tragic task of combing through that area and collecting what they can continued. there are refrigerated vans accompanies that group. that's the most urgent task, getting what remains of those victims from the field. personal belongings, too, being taken away, and then the more broad and frankly very complex task of the wreckage. what to do with it. what to document from it, who to leave in place or take back to work out definitively what caused it to fall out of the sky. obviously everybody saying it was a missile that hit them at 10,000 meters height, but today also, the front line is changing, too. the feeling we got yesterday was that the ukrainian military were increasingly close to that crash site. that seems to be the case. you saw there we actually saw them. the inspection team has relocated to the ukrainian side of the line but the

probabilities are they will eventually work on entirely ukrainian territory soon. under pressure, key access roads now, separatist militants are moving back towards the center from them. the word we heard this morning, gunfire, quite close to the center of the area. it's deeply tense inside that city. i think many are wondering what comes in the days ahead. christi? >> nick paton walsh for us there. thank you very much, on top of it as always. we'll be right back. dust irritating your eye? (singing) ♪ visine® gives your eyes relief in seconds. visine®. get back to normal. 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. at night and when it's cloudy, we use more natural gas.

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the coming days across the east coast of the u.s. >> all right. jennifer, thank you very much. >> thanks, jen. and thank you for starting your morning with us. s next hour of your "new day" starts -- now. okay. grab your breakfast, take a nice, deep breath, because you've made it to the weekend. i'm christi paul. >> is it the weekend? fantastic. i'm miguel in for victor blackwell, i hope on vacation. this is "new day saturday." new concerns about the deadly ebola virus. the first of two americans infected with ebola is expected to arrive in the u.s. at some point tonight. >> pretty darn concerning. the first time ever a patient with ebola will be treated in the states. dr. kent brantly and nurse nancy writebol contracted the disease working in liberia.

>> both are expecting to be treated at emory hospital here in atlanta. >> causing concern, i'm sure here locally. the world health organization says ebola is spreading faster than its ever to contain it. >> bring in cnn nick valencia outside emory hospital right now. so, nick, tell me, do we know who made the call to bring these two americans back to the states, and why emory was chosen? >> reporter: good morning, christi and miguel. according to the cdc director, this was a decision made by the organization working in west africa treating ebola patients, samaritan's purse. they made the risk analysis of bringing the americans back here to the united states and that decision was supported by the cdc, emory health care officials and others here in the united states to bring them back. their concern is limiting the risk of infection to others during the repatriation process. victor -- i'm sorry, christi and miguel, as far as why they're bringing them here to atlanta, why emory university hospital? that was spoken about in a press conference yesterday.

>> the reason we are bringing these patients back to our facility is because we feel they deserve to have the highest level of care offered for their treatment. they have gone over on humanitarian mission. they have become infected through medical care, and we feel that we have the environment and expertise to safely care for these patients and offer them the maximum opportunity for recovery from these infections. >> reporter: emory university hospital, one of four facilities here in the united states that has the resources and ability to treat people with this kind of deadly virus. 90% fatality rate here with the ebola virus. cdc director went on as speaking to dr. sanjay gupta during the interview saying he doesn't want people's fear outweigh their compassion and does not feel

there's a risk to the general public bringing americans back here to the united states. christi? >> a question for you there, nick. it's miguel here. it's not easy to get this virus, because it is contracted through fluids. but once you get it, it's obviously very, very bad. i mean, just here at work, people are kind of nervous about hearing about these patients coming here. what are folks saying there on the ground at emory? >> reporter: well, while this is a highly infectious virus, this isn't very contagious. meaning, if you were on a bus or plane with somebody, it's not an airborne virus. it isn't easily contracted from one person to the other. so there are fears, there are concerns. we've talked to people here. there's actually a conference here that's been going on all week. they've watched it develop over the course of last week and some are very scared about that. there are others here, specifically public health school students i've spoken to,

a great public health school and they're excited about the possibility of groundbreaking research what they're calling a historic moment. others are really unscared about the uncertainties and the lack of knowledge about the ebola virus. this being such a deadly virus. 90% of the people that get this virus end up dying. so clearly, a very mixed reaction here among the community throughout atlanta. miguel, christi? >> the effects on the body are so horrible. nick valencia, thank you very much. >> thank you, nick. talk about our other big story we're watching very closely. the crisis in the middle east this morning. an israeli soldier still missing after a firefight that shattered the truce. that was intended to last through the weekend. it only lasted about 90 minutes. >> shocking. israel assumes second lieutenant hadar goldin was captured and president obama blames hamas

saying he must be unconditionally released as soon as possible. >> we know in the past 24 hours, israel has been pounding gaza. >> just making things more confusing, hamas denies it has the israeli soldier. though it admits it lost contact with fighters in the area where he reportedly was taken. >> president obama calls the mounting casualties heartbreaking. as congress approves another $225 million for israel's iron dome defense system. >> and all of this coming as egypt's president continues to press for peace. >> translator: we have a real opportunity to end the current conflict and build upon it a conclusive solution to the palestinian case for once and for all. a palestinian state which gives hope to the palestinians in a bigger, safer and more stable future, and gives security to

the israeli side and the peace in its country. >> well, despite the egyptian's hope for a cease-fire deal, as we said, fierce fighting is still continuing today in gaza. it's in the middle of the afternoon there now. >> and martin savidge is in jerusalem anchoring coverage of the crisis in the middle east. martin what is the latest with the israeli soldier? is the idf still going house to house there? >> reporter: yes. the effort is no doubt focused trying to find that second lieutenant. you know, we expected at this point to be about a day into this humanitarian cease-fire, that, of course, is not what is happening now. in fact, there are real concerns this conflict could intensify as a result. israel says there was an attack carried out on its soldiers shortly after the cease-fire went into affect. two of its soldiers killed and they believe one captured by hamas. hamas denies that and says it is israel that broke the cease-fire

by opening fire with artillery and air strikes on civilians in the rafah area. the finger-pointing is going back and forth, but the suffering and conflict inside of gaza is continuing, regardless. for the latest we are joined by cnn john vause in gaza city. what's the latest you're seeing and hearing from there? >> reporter: from here in gaza city, there is the constant sound of artillery. that has been sporadic for the last few hours. there also appears to be some tank redeployment to the east as well, but the real focus seems to be in the south around the area of rafah, where that israeli soldier hadar goldin was taken by a palestinian militant. from what we understand from the residents who live down there, they say israeli tanks have been deployed on what's known as the philadelphia corridor a small strip of are land between rafah and egypt, which is controlled under international law by the israelis. also we're hearing that israel

has warned residents in rafah not to drive north. not to leave that area in vehicles, because they could be targeted. what is happens right now is that the israelis have essentially sealed off that area and in an attempt to stop whoever has the israeli soldier so that they don't actually leave the area. all of this is continuing while there is constant israeli air strikes, we're told and a constant barrage of artillery and tank fire while that search continues. we're told by palestinian health officials ever since the cease-fire collapsed yesterday, more than 100 palestinians have been killed in rafah alone, more nan 350, probably a lot more by now, have been hurt. >> reporter: and curious, is there a fear by the palestinians in gaza there this is only going to intensify the con applicafli? make it worse? >> reporter: absolutely. there was a lot of hope maybe this was headed towards a

resolution. fishermen started heading back out to sea. a sense that maybe, of relief, really, that after spending more than 20 days, three weeks or so, stuck inside, with constant israeli attacks that finally, maybe, they could resupply, start repairing some of the damage, especially to the power station. we haven't had power coming into gaza for the last five days. supplies are running low. warning that water levels are at critically low levels. and this is a humanitarian catastrophe just waiting to happen that they don't know exactly when it will happen, but it will happen soon, unless there is some kind of major relief coming into gaza. so, yes, great relief, but now it seems israel has stepped up the conflict here, continuing these attacks as they search for this israeli soldier. there is some hope that maybe those diplomatic talks which are set to continue in cairo might find some kind of solution, but it's barely a glimmer at this

point. >> reporter: yes. john vause, thank you very much from gaza city and sort of repeating what john said there, a lot of hope here on the israeli side as well that the cease-fire would take hold and that there could be some sort of permanent solution that could be found to bring peace between both sides, but that is a long way away, it seems now. back to atlanta and christi and miguel. >> martin savidge, thank you, and john vause as well. appreciate it. a palestinian legislator and activist is calling out israel for alleged war crimes. and what she calls "a deliberate massacre of palestinian civilians." and president obama defending his secretary of state over his attempts to broker a cease-fire. we'll have the latest on how the white house is trying to deal and stop the violence. let me get this straight... [ female voice ] yes? lactaid® is 100% real milk? right. real milk. but it won't cause me discomfort. exactly, no discomfort, because it's milk without the lactose. and it tastes? it's real milk!

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i'm martin savidge in jerusalem, as the war in gaza continues to grind on, there is a huge population of palestinians in the west bank that have been painfully watching all of this. especially as the death toll has been rising. i'm joined by a top member of the plo executive committee, and thank you very much for joining us, and i wanted first what is the palestinian authority's stance now on what is happening in gaza? >> look, martin, we are all members of the plo and we are building a unified palestinian position pertaining to what's happening in gaza. we don't look at it as exclusively gaza. this is an assault on the palestinian people as a whole. on the whole, palestinian national well-being, on the chances of peace in the future. the are israel occupation take

different shapes, annexing jerusalem, housing militias, daily killings and so on in the west bank, plus a system of strangling checkpoints and so on, and now it's taking on periodically a cruel assault and siege on gaza, and the killing of, and injuring of thousands of palestinians. this has become intolerable. the situation is intolerable and it's due to two things. one, israeli impunity and total disregard for palestinian lives and rights, and for international law, and, two, an ongoing israeli occupation that has generated a culture of entitlement, exceptionalism, racism, even, and total control. we have to end this situation and we have to move forward. >> reporter: if there is a hope to -- >> right now our main concern -- >> reporter: -- if i could, what

is going on with the efforts to rekindle the cease-fire? what are the palestinian authority and other members doing to try to get this going again? >> well, the plo put tolgether, headed by the president, we put together a team of negotiators of presenting national unity with all the political factions and it is an empowered team to negotiate on behalf of all the palestinian, and it is now on its way to egypt. it will be in cairo relatively soon, and we're hoping that they will be able to negotiate not just an end to this -- this latest tragic bloodshed, and to save lives and to end this carna carnage, but also to try to dismantle all the causes that have brought about such a horrific situation, including lifting the siege on gaza and including working on humanitarian conditions and reconstruction of gaza, but also

dismantling all the potentially volatile conditions. this, we're trying to do. also, we're trying to -- >> reporter: you're saying this team has moved forward? it is going? >> -- international efforts -- it is to be in cairo shortly if it hasn't arrived yet, but it is a team, it is empowered. we've give didn't the mandate. the president speaking on behalf of all palestinians. it's a 12-member team. 5 from the plo factions, 5 from hamas, 2 from islamic jihad. >> do you have hopes it will succeed? >> well, let's hope the israeli team will show up. so far they haven't shown up. so far they're very busy demolishing, destroying, shelling and pounding gaza. now turned totally into rubble, rafah, telling people not to leave rafah, they've beseemped it, but no bombing in their own homes. over 150 killed now.

hundreds and hundreds have been wounded. they have nowhere to go. they have no medical facilities. they have no water, no sanitation. no electricity. it's a humanitarian disaster, and that's what israel is doing right now while the world is watching, and worried about one israeli soldier who's been captured on enemy territory, because it's part of an invading army and yet the hundreds and thousands being victimized in such a cruel and inhuman way, somehow they become just numbers, meaningless and the whole value of our lives and rights have been devalued in the face of such a massive israeli attack. i think it's time to stop this invasion. stop this attack, and we will talk. we've done everything possible to bring the two sides to negotiationses, to bring about a cease-fire to save lives. this is our primary concern. we want to stop this carnage, we want to save lives and do not relish the death of any individual, regardless of nationality, religion or

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22 minutes past the hour. president obama we know is calling for an unconditional release of an israeli soldier still missing at this hour and also calls the growing number of civilian casualties in gaza, "heartbreaking". >> the administration's attempts to broker a cease-fire between israel and hamas, not getting quite the results they wanted. our erin mcpike joins us from the white house, it is highstakes and the president is also defending secretary of state john kerry. good morning. >> reporter: miguel and christi, good morning to you. essentially the president said his diplomatic team is going to keep trying and essentially told critics to cool it pointing out the military has been stretched thin because of a decade of war, essentially, and that john

kersee continuing to try, that he's making calls every day into the region, and they're going to keep going until they get a cease-fire that works and lasts. christi and miguel? >> okay. besides, i guess, john kerry, is there anything else on the table for a next course of action for the president? >> reporter: well, essentially, what the president's diplomatic team is doing is working with the qatari's. the first order of business, get back the captured israeli ze soldier and will continue working on the cease-fire. >> we're coming out of a decade of war, and, you know, our military has been stretched very hard. as has our budget. nevertheless, we try. we go in there and we make an

effort. and when i see john kerry going out there and trying to broker a cease-fire, we should all be supporting him. we shouldn't be a bunch of complaints and second-guessing, well it hasn't happened yet, or -- nitpicking before he's had a chance to complete his efforts. because, i'll tell you what, there isn't any other country that's going in there and making those efforts. >> now, the other thing that the president said is that achieving a cease-fire has been difficult, because hamas doesn't necessarily have control of the situation or all of the people in gaza. christi and miguel? >> if i can switch gears a bit, the reports on the cia interrogation techniques after 9/11 is due to come out in a couple of weeks. the president talked a little about torture in the u.s. yesterday. tell us about that. >> reporter: right, miguel, he did and essentially said in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the americans did, in fact, torture

some people and he said going forward america needs to do better. he called it extraordinary interrogation techniques but essentially said, yes, there was torture and the country should do better. miguel? >> all righty. erin mcpike, good to see you this morning. thank you, erin. from choke hold to homicide. the new york medical examiner's office now laying blame in the controversial death of a queens plan. also, the latest on a botch ed execution that left a man gulping and gasping for air for hours. ce never grows old. citracal maximum. easily absorbed calcium plus d. beauty is bone deep. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve.. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if frustration and paperwork decrease...

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diseases. the second patient also expected to be treated at emory, but no trialframe given for that arrival, as they are coming separately. and number two, a controversial choke hold is to blame in the death of a queens resident. the hold was used on eric garner by an nypd officer as he was arrested for selling loose cigarettes on the street. the examiner's office called the death a homicide. so far no charges filed, nypd says the investigation is ongoing. and arizona senator john mccain is comparing a dodged execution in his state, arizona, again to torture. a total of 15, yes, 15 doses of a novel drug cocktail were injected into joseph wood when a single dose didn't quickly end his life are and it took nearly two hours for the convicted murd troer die as he gulped and snarled for air as it was characterized. the state temporarily halted excuses now and the u.s. attorney general eric hold sir investigating execution

procedures. at number four, house republicans on friday passed a revised bill to crack down on immigrants from central america, including making it easier to deport children. the measure would give more money to the national guard and to boost border security. president obama has called the bill extreme, and said republicans nope the senate is unlikely to approve it. number five in china, 65 people are dead after what you're seeing here. this explosion at an automotive factory that happened earlier this morning. china state news agency reports 150 people were also hurd. investigators say flames may have caught in a wheel hub factory. they supply parts to a u.s. automaker, general motors. this morning, instead of a quiet 72-hour cease-fire, which

everyone seems to have been expecting, the sounds of explosions could be heard in gaza once again. idf troops are still looking for the missing israeli soldier, hadar goldin, believed captured by hamas. >> bring in cnn correspondent and analyst, given this cease fire in place, colonel, was the israeli mission to destroy the palestinian tunnel unnecessarily provocative at the time? >> what the palestinians are claiming as just before the cease-fire went into affect, the israelis took an advance weekend went further in so they would be sitting on more land when the cease-fire took effect, thus in effect, giving them greater opportunity to go through these tunnels. technically, not in violation but a what kind of a provocative act but something that militaries do. >> kimberly, we though hamas has not spoken or acted with one voice. it has a political and military

wing. they have not been acting very well together at all. what is the state of affairs there? who is in control of hamas? >> you can imagine, what you have, small groups of fighters spread across gaza. some in these deep tunnels where telephones, cell phones don't work. so they are out of communication with their command. so imagine from their point of view, you're in a tunnel. you hear explosions. now, those explosions very well might have been the israelis doing exactly what they said they would do, which was continue to destroy every single tunnel they had found throughout the cease-fire, but if you're out there in the field and you hear a blast, you think you're under fire nap could explain, doesn't excuse, but could explain why we saw hostilities continue. >> colonel, in regards to this captured soldier, remember that hamas is denying they have him. if hamas did have him, would they not want to use that as some sort of negotiating tool,

and because they're not, should we assume they don't have him? >> i don't think we should assume that at all. hamas is playing this very well. they could have him and are waiting to announce at a time of this choosing. saying they have him right now will certainly ramp up israeli operations against them. so if they keep things kind of confusing, they stand to gain from this, and if they do say they have him, they will come under a lot of pressure from the west to release him. i don't foresee that happening. if this guy is alive, he has great value for whoever has him, be it islamic jihad, hamas, whoever. it's in their interests to kind of keep things confusing right now. so it makes perfect sense that hamas is saying, we don't know anything about it, just for the reasons kimberly said. these units are out of touch. we don't know what happened. >> and kimberly, the -- the u.s. has been talking to both qatar and turkey through secretary of state john kerry.

he's come under fire, great fire, in the israeli press and across israel for this. is the u.s. compromised here? can it be a fair arbiter and maintain the trust of israel irs here in negotiations? >> in a sense, the statements that the president and secretary kerry have made since the disappearance of the israel irsoldier have strengthened their position, vis-a-vis, the israeli government and people. now, the government of israel feels like they have gotten this world opinion back on their side. they were taking pretty heavy criticism for civilian casualties over this past week, just hours before the cease-fire was announced and now, look. it's changed completely to the other direction. they are advancing, and instead of getting further censure, getting sympathy at least from the white house, and this puts them in a better position, israeli officials feel, going

into any potential negotiations in the future hoping they will both strengthen the palestinian authority instead of hamas, and also that they'll be able to work with egypt, who they say as an ally in this, to permanently increase security along the border between gaza and egypt so that whatever state hamas is left in after this onslaught, they won't be able to rebuild tunnels and won't be able to re-arm and resupply with weapons. >> speaking of that, colonel, and maybe get an answer from each of you. the arab nations have been fairly silent so far on this conflict. what do you make of that? >> hamas has really not enjoyed a lot of sympathy lately. their biggest blow, i think, has been the egyptians with the change of government in egypt and the coming to power of el sissi, they know that they're in deep trouble when they try to re-arm, because almost all of the armaments that come into gaza come across that egyptian border.

he shut it down, and the tunnels over there. so i think hamas has lost a lot of favor in the arab world, and, you know, they're bringing a lot of bad press to the arabs right now. >> all right. kimberly, last word. you want to react to that? >> i think absolutely. at this point, hamas is on the back foot, and it needs to, if it can, produce that soldier, or at least give the world an answer as to what's happened to him. >> okay. rick francona and kimberly dozier, we appreciate you, thank you. health officials say it's the deadliest outbreak of ebola ever, now two americans infected with it are preparing to return to the states for treatment. so how much risk dobb they pose, and could an outbreak happen here in the u.s.?

at this moment, medical professionals at emory hospital in atlanta preparing for the very first known case of ebola in the u.s. hours from now, a plane carrying one of two infected americans is expected to arrive. >> dr. kent brantly and a worker, nancy write boll cbombb contracted it while working in liberia. >> we want to talk with a doctor with the national institutes of health. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. can you give us a sense of -- we

do have international viewers here with us this hour. can you give a sense of the risk in in liberia and sierra leone and sigh beberia now? >> it's really dreadful, it's an outbreak that's really out of control. you mentioned the statistics. there have been over 1,300 people infected over 730 people have died, and it's the inadequacy of the health care infrastructure as well as the difficulty with getting the population to appreciate that this is a virus spreading from person to person, and what one needs to do to prevent that spread. and the people at risk are those who come in direct contact with sick people. such as family members, but importantly, even health care providers, and people who tend to the sick people as well as morticians. so it's a cycle that just keeps

self-propagating itself. which is the reason why it's a very, very give situation in those south african countries. >> is this one spreading so fast because they just weren't prepared for it? is this particular strain of the virus just more deadly than others? and is, people are getting it more quickly? and what is the mechanism that is moving it from person to person? is it mainly blood, or is it sexual activity? what it happening here? >> well, let me just get to your second question first. it is direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person. and that's, you know, they get very sick. it's vomit, it's feces, it's blood. when a person comes into direct contact with those body fluids, that's how you get infected. it is not spread by aerosolized the way you spread influenza or diseases like that. so it's direct contact with the bodily fluids. the question you're asking about why is it so bad there now, is that ebola was first discovered

in 1976, in zaire, now the democratic republic of the congo. over the past many years since 1976, there have been many outbreaks, mostly in rural areas, that geographically made it easier to contain, because of the geographic restriction. now you're talking about cross-border infection, from three separate countries, that are very populous, but also countries in which you have cities in which the virus now has had outbreak in the cities in those countries, which make it much, much more difficult to contain. >> we talked to a shop owner earlier from liberia who said she's basically getting on a plane and coming to america for the time being, and that she knows an awful lot of people just getting out of that region. does that concern you at all? or do you think that's a smart move? >> well, whether a person stays in that region or not is their own personal choice. when you talk about, is that a

problem? you mean about bringing the infection here? if that's what you mean, we are very capable of containing these types of infection, and we always get asked that question about someone getting on a plane that might be infected and then when they get here, wind up getting sick. well, with the proper protective equipment and the proper capability of isolating patients, there's essentially no risk of the kinds of outbreaks we're seeing in western africa. >> and i take it, no concern for those two individuals coming here? that people in atlanta should not be concerned about their safety? quickly, if you can. >> the situation in flying them over and the facilities at emory are such that they have the capability of executing the very precise protocols that have been put forth by the cdc in order to protect not only the health care workers who will be caring for these individuals, but, also, the people in the hospital and the general public.

so the containment capabilities are really quite safe. >> all right, doctor, thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> you're quite welcome. they live on opposite sides of the border but their lives are essentially parallel. two young girls tell us what it's like to grow up in a war zone.

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its fourth week and more than 1,600 palestinians have been killed and many children. >> and palestinian children and teens talk about what it is like to live in a war zone. here is cnn's paula hancocks. >> reporter: this is in my area. i can't stop crying. i might die tonight. a few nights ago, this 16-year-old palestinian girl tweeted live sharing her terror with the world from gaza. >> the sound of the bombs, i feel like it's going to hit the house. i keep listening to the bombs. >> reporter: farah baker used to take photos of nature. but now it is bombed buildings. we talk on the telephone. the teenager has lived through three wars with israel and hamas, but this is the worst. >> i feel i'm safe, but i try to

hide my fears to encourage my 6-year-old sister who keeps crying. >> reporter: at 6, her sister has seen all three bloody violence. children are dying in the streets in gaza. more than 250 since the latest fighting began according to the united nations, more than the number of palestinian fighters killed. i asked baker what she wants. she replies a cease-fire forever. tali, also 16 and war hardened. a veteran of hamas rockets. she says a rocket hit her school bus 20 seconds after she got off. >> i get on and off the bus every day, twice a day every week. it is terrifying to think that i may be the next one that will be on that bus that will explode.

>> reporter: one hospital moved near the nato clinic. some groups help residents stay safe. she says israel has shelters, but the violence is no le less terrifying. >> when the alarming ring, you have 40 seconds to run. >> reporter: she wishes her life were different. two teenagers on different side of the borders, 16-year-olds, who should be worrying about exams and partying. instead, they are worrying about staying alive. paula hancocks, cnn, new york. >> she has 40 seconds to run. run where? >> they have shelters. they get used to it. frustrating. israel continues to take aim at the hamas tunnels into gaza as it searches for one of its

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good morning to you. i'm meteorologist jennifer gray. we are watching tropical storm bertha. the second named storm of the atlantic hurricane season. this has winds of 50 miles per hour and gusts up to 65. it is 120 miles south of san juan and creating intense thunderstorms around puerto rico. this is going to continue to head to the north/northwest at

about 20 to 25 miles per hour. it will produce anywhere from 3 to 5 inches of rain in puerto rico. 1 to 3 inches in dominican republic. this is a drought-stricken area. nobody wants a tropical storm. they definitely need the rain. flooding will be a concern, of course, the rain, though, will be a welcome relief in that part of the world. here is the forecast track. it is going to stay away from the u.s. we will have maybe an increase in surf along the eastern coast of the u.s. we will also have an increased risk of rip currents. that will really be our only concern here close to home. what will our focus be for the weekend? it is going to be the area of low pressure and the stalled out front. this is actually the feature that is steering bertha away from the u.s. and so even though we will be dealing with the rain over the weekend, we can actually thank the stalled out front for keeping that storm away from us. we are going to be dealing with

a lot of rain across the southeast and even the northeast through the weekend. we will talk anywhere from 2 to 4 inches along the northeast. 1 to 2 inches in new york. even in the southeast skies. in atlanta, anywhere from 1 to 2 inches from atlanta to savannah. in south florida, picking up more unfortunately. >> all right, jennifer. if bertha takes a left turn, i'm holding you personally responsible. >> deal. >> thank you, jen. thank you for sharing your morning with us. >> the next hour of "new day" starts right now. >> it is a saturday. and we welcome not only our viewers here in the u.s., but around the world. we are grateful. i'm christi paul. >> or afternoon. good morning and good afternoon. i'm miguel marquez in for victor

blackwell. this is "new day" saturday. >> the first of two americans inspected with ebola is expected to arrive in the u.s. this after afternoon. >> it is the first time ever a patient with ebola is treated in the united states. dr. kent brantly and nancy writebol contracted the disease working in africa. >> both patients are expected to be treated at emory hospital in atlanta, but they have to be transported separately. >> the world health organization says ebola is spreading faster than they can keep up. more than 700 people have died from ebola in recent weeks in africa. >> treating patients is not easy. it is so infectious, it kills 90% of patients. >> it is contracted by body fluids and symptoms include

fever and headaches and weakness. >> the medical community has been quick to dismiss the concerns saying they have this under control in bringing the victims back to the u.s. there is social media concern that is exploding with questions and fears. >> ebola in your town is a concern, i think. how much of a risk is it to bring victims back? we want to bring in nick valencia outside emory hospital. >> reporter: the first patient is expected to arrive in georgia some time this afternoon. what essentially is an air ambulance. that plane that wept nt to pick the patient that is designed to pick up patients with infectious disease. they arrive at dobbins air force base and put into a high security isolation unit. this hospital is one of four

facilities in the united states that has the ability to handle the situation like this. there are fears and concerns that the thought of having anyone infected with the ebola virus here in the united states. the cdc director spoke to dr. sanjay gupta and he said he hopes people's fears don't get in the way of compassion. >> i know it creates the fear, but i hope it doesn't outweigh the compassion. we have to focus on stopping the outbreak. we will be able to stop it, but it will take supporting people. that means if people who are working on that response get sick, we care for help. >> reporter: and the risk benefit analysis to care for those americans who contracted the ebola virus was made by samaritan's purse and supported by the cdc and emory and the state department. miguel, christi. >> this is the first time it is

being treated here in the u.s., it is unknown territory for the first part. we know the medical professionals have been prepared for it. do we know how they have been trained or prepared for this one particular incident? >> reporter: we know that they will be treating this like a haz-mat situation. you will see the moon suits. people covered from head-to-toe. every inch of their body taking precautions. the good news is they know how to stop ebola. soap and detergent. the founder of the ebola virus talked to christiane amanpour and said this is a result of the dysfunctional health care system in africa. that led to the crisis and scare of the ebola virus and centers of the countries. all precautions are being taken on this end. the cdc director emphasizing to those who have concerns and fears that they don't see the

risk. if there was a risk to the general public, they would not bring the two americans here. they feel, obviously, miguel and christi, there is no better place to treat these two americans that contracted the virus than here in the united states. this hospital behind me, emory university hospital outfitted with every resource to do just that. >> we understand some experimental drugs may try to help treat them in a way they have not been able to be treated before. nick valencia, thank you so much. nick, we appreciate it. >> reporter: you bet. now to our other big story. a disturbing story. the crisis in the middle east. the official palestinian delegation is headed to cairo for necessity gosh negotiations aimed at curbing the violence. >> egypt's president laid out a

cease-fire initiative that he called quote a real chance to end the violence. it was rejected by hamas. >> the egypt talks come as the israeli soldier missing after the firefight over the weekend. israel assumes second lieutenant hadar goldin was taken. >> we know in the past 24 hours, israel has been pounding gaza. regarding that israeli soldier, hamas rejects taking him. >> martin savidge is in the middle east covering the crisis for us. >> reporter: miguel and christi, the efforts on the forces in southern gaza are focused on

locating the missing soldier. he is officially listed as m.i.a. that is hadar goldin. he is a second lieutenant. israel maintains he was captured by hamas in a gross violation of the cease-fire shortly after it began. it started with a suicide bomber with two soldiers and the other soldier was taken. hamas is saying something different. there was no such attack on their part. they do no have an israeli soldier. they say the cease-fire was maintained by air strikes after the cease-fire went to effect. you point out that the authority continues to take delegation with hamas and other groups involved in the group going to egypt. israel, it appears is saying nothing, but the media is reporting there is no such delegation. if israel doesn't go, it doesn't look positive for a cease-fire. we want to check in with cnn's

john vause in gaza city. that is the other that sees the conflict. john. >> reporter: marty, in the last few moments, we are being told that palestinians who live in the area of the north of the gaza strip around the area in the northern part of gaza, the idea telling them they can actually return home. they won't be allowed to go to the north area which is still an active military area. to repeat this again, palestinians are being allowed back into that area. there was a lot of activity in the north and focusing efforts not only to find the rockets and rocket launchers and tunnels. and we have the other report from the central part of the gaza strip. a fairly big town here. that israeli forces may be moving back east. in fact heading back toward the israeli border. speculation here and it's only

speculation at this point, the israelis are starting to wrap up the operations here. they are finishing essentially. they are allowing people back into these areas which are closed military zones for more than three weeks. this would for the timetable we heard from the idf. the israeli general a couple of days ago saying the tunnel operation would be wrapped up in a couple of days. maybe that is the point we are getting to right now. to the south, in rafah, it remains a closed military zone. the israelis continue to look for the missing israeli soldier, hadar goldin. the israeli tanks are patrolling that corridor which israel legally controls. the philadelphia corridor. tanks are there. they sealed off the border south to egypt. roads are closed to the north. no one can get in or out. the artillery fire continues and so do the air strikes. this is an israeli response.

stop the militants from leaving with the captured soldier and pound the area. the problem with that is there are civilians in the area. since the cease-fire collapsed and the israeli soldier went missing, more than 100 palestinians have been killed in rafah alone. that the point, there does seem to be some movement here at least when it comes to the israeli operations and where the palestinians are allowed to go. they will go back to their homes or what is left of their homes. marty. >> reporter: and that remains to be seen, of course, a possible glimmer of hope. what will they be returning to? in the meantime, let's go back to atlanta and christi and miguel. >> john vause and martin savidge. we appreciate you so much. stay safe. >> thanks. we have seen a lot of destruction in gaza. schools and shelters under

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13 minutes past the hour. this morning, cnn has learned that an official palestinian delegation is on the way to cairo to attend negotiations. >> let's bring back lieutenant colonel bob magnus and

william, israel will not send a delegation to cairo. with one party absent, can these negotiations take place? >> they will have to sit down with the palestinians. the good thing is the palestinians are trying to un e unite. this is what we can expect with the reconciliation with fatah and hamas. if they have a negotiation, israelis can be part of the discussion. >> colonel, the idf has taken part in precision targeting techniques. we know and have heard that two schools have been hit recently. how precise is this targeting? >> well, the technology is there. they can hit something within a meter. you know, it is a selection of

targets, christi. clearly, they hit mosques where they allege there are rockets being stored or commanding control is operated. we already know the u.n. has knowled acknowledged one of their schools was used. precision targeting is a misnomer. if you reject the idea the targets are not legitimate. the israelis is in a complex area. target selection is tough. sometimes you get it off a few meters and that can result, unfortunately, in casualties. that may be what's happening. >> mr. taylor, you say that fatah and hamas seem to be coming together over this and negotiates as one. do you base that on anything other than them going to cairo?

if they are going to cairo, it seems the israelis who wanted the egyptians involved, would eventually go there, yes? >> i think that's right. as i say, for some time, for the past several months, the palestinians under both hamas and fatah have talked about reconciliation. that will be important for the negotiations with the israelis. the egyptians have not been as helpful as they have been in the past. they have better relation was some palestinians than others. if this discussion in cairo can come up with a united negotiating position, the israelis would be in good position to sit down and have that discussion. >> colonel maginnis, if there is, indeed, an israeli soldier being held by hamas, is it even possible to talk about a cease-fire? is that a game changer? >> well it is a game changer. keep in mind the last time the hamas held an israeli soldier,

it took five years and they had to surrender prisoners for him. they don't want the violence, but they don't want their own taken captive. in all accounts, hamas will smuggle that soldier in the central part of gaza out of the reach of the defense force. then netanyahu, the prime minister, has a difficult position. do we continue to the fight into the densely populated area where the risk of casualties on both sides will increase. we saw the same type of problem, not with a prisoner, but fighting with fallujah and other densely populated areas. especially when you throw in the sub terrain aspect. you talk about the complex fights. i don't know if the israelis

want to get into this. we are 25 day into the conflict. they are probably war weary at this point. >> secretary of state john kerry has been pillared in the press and openly mocked. clearly that is not helpful to the situation here. is the u.s. on the right track talking to the qataris and turks and the third option with the egyptians back in the game. >> it can't hurt to talk to people. in fact, it is part of the solution. what has to happen though, are the palestinians of both sides need to be talking with the israelis eventually. it has to be a good thing to try for a cease-fire. that is also something that secretary kerry has been doing. the way to do that though, is to work with the fatah portion of the palestinians. the moderate portion of the

palestinians who can be a good negotiator and who can negotiate with the israelis. hamas is not willing to negotiate with the israelis. that is the direction mr. kerry should be taking. >> william taylor and lieutenant colonel, thank you very much for your insight. we appreciate it as always. >> thank you. >> thank you. now the ebola epidemic is spreading in west africa. >> now the virus is coming to the u.s. for the first time. how doctors here are planning to treat the two infected american patients. veggies you're cool... reworking the menu. mayo, corn dogs...you are so out of here! ahh... the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals. 9 grams of protein... with 30% less sugars than before. ensure, your #1 dr. recommended brand now introduces ensure active. muscle health. clear protein drink and high protein.

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22 minutes past the hour. right now, egypt's president says his country's efforts to broker a cease-fire is the best efforts to end the conflict with hamas and israel. >> and both sides' efforts have not paid off at all. let's go to cnn's erin mcpike at the white house. >> reporter: miguel, that's because there are critics within israel. israeli media and politicians in israel and here at home who are criticizing john kerry for his efforts despite the fact he has gone to the region and made calls day in and day out. listen here to what the president said about that yesterday. >> we are coming out of a decade of war. our military has been stretched very hard as has our budget.

nevertheless, we try. we go in there and we make an effort. when i see john kerry going out to try to broker a cease-fire, we should all be supporting him. there shouldn't be a bunch of complaints and it hasn't happened yet and knit picking before he had a chance to complete his efforts. i tell you what, there is not any other country going in there and making those efforts. >> reporter: complicating those efforts is that as the president pointed out just yesterday, there are different factions within gaza. >> now that the cease-fire has ended, wondering where the united states' focus is. >> reporter: first, christi, we know that later today, president

obama will be headed to camp david. on top of that, a senior state department official said yesterday the united states is leaning very heavily on the qataris and turks. the first objective is to make sure that israeli soldier can be released and achieving a cease-fire. christi and miguel. >> this soldier is the lynch pin. erin mcpike, thank you. we are watching the patient with the deadly ebola virus to come to the united states today. >> how much of a risk is it to bring that patient to the u.s.? dr. sanjay gupta joins us live.

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29 minutes past the hour right now. hope you have time to take a breather on this saturday. i'm christi paul. >> i'm trying to breathe as desperately as possible. i'm miguel marquez. this is your "new day." a palestinians delegation is headed to cairo aimed at curbing the bloodshed in gaza. the israeli soldier is still missing as violence rages in gaza. the soldier hadar goldin was taken. and the bill to crackdown on

the immigrations. the measure would give more money to the national guard to boost border security. president obama called the bill extreme and knows the republicans are likely to not approve. it. and international monitors say recovery efforts have been made after 70 dutch experts have been able to access the crash site of flight 17. as many as 80 sets of human remains could still be among the debris waiting to be taken back to the netherlands. number four, a new york medical examiner has confirmed that the chokehold death of the queens man busted for selling illegal cigarettes a homicide. the chokehold along with other factors led to the victim's death. charges have not been filed, but the investigation is still ongoing. number five, paul george of the indiana pacers, this poor guy, went down during a team usa

game in las vegas and apparently broke his leg in a brutal and very graphic way. you could hear it snap. fans and players had to avert their eyes. we are still waiting to hear an official announcement about it. george did send out a tweet thanking people for their support and saying he would be back and better than ever. getting back to the top story. one of our top stories. the first of two american ebola patients is en route to emory hospital in atlanta. >> the plane transporting that patient is scheduled to land later today. some say the hospital staff at emory are trained and prepared for this very moment. dr. sanjay gupta is with us now. sanjay, what does that prep look like at emory and what happens once this plane hits the ground?

>> the whole unit is on lockdown. that is how they described it to us. they have the doctors going through specific training. nurses involved in the care. there is a buddy system involved. people go in and they monitor how each person is gowning up. making themselves safe as they take care of the patient. all that training is going on right now. the plane is supposed to land at some point. we don't know when it will go to the air force base and the patient brought to emory university hospital in the isolation unit. i want to bring in an expert who knows a bit about this and originally cleared up misconceptions out there. with everything you know, dr. morrison, you know how difficult this is spreading person to person. when you heard this was first

coming to atlanta, what were your thoughts? >> they will get much better care here because of the specialized infrastructure. they will get the same treatment they would have gotten in the field, but the isolation procedures and infrastructure and the monitoring will be much more up to date and i think that as you know, since this virus is so hard to transmit, it really requires very close contact. i don't think there is any danger to anyone else. i know people worry about having ebola patients on u.s. soil, but if they are properly isolated and care givers take the appropriate infection control precautions, i think there really is no danger. less than being struck by lightning. >> and let me just say dr. morse, i was over in guinea and

saw the patients cared for. the two patients coming back on health care workers. they are trained well and had protective gear. i understand the united states has more resources than over there. does that concern you at all? mistakes can be made. a human element to this. although if it is little risk, it would be no risk if the patients were not transported this way. >> yes, i think that is an excellent point. we are all human. human error does happen. it is tragic. the health care workers, like family members of ebola patients who are taking care of the patients, are at the very front line. we could consider hethem heroes. i think also you have a situation where the people have been spread very thin, they have been working very long hours,

they are very tired. some of the volunteers have not had this level of rigours control. obviously tired people can make mistakes. these things are tragic. i think the lucky thing, if there is a lucky thing, ebola is not that easy to transmit. we would not like to see other people like health care workers become victims themselves. unfortunately, accidents do happen. people can accidentally stick themselves with a needle while drawing blood or giving an injection to a patient. there is a need to be cautious and not be complacent. we know with the sars outbreak in canada, slip ups can happen. there will be a great deal of

attention paid here. the people working with the patients are going to have very good specialized facilities as i understand it. i know you have seen them. they will get special training and hopefully they will not be putting themselves in any unnecessary risk. >> thank you so much stephen morse. the outlook isn't really great of people with ebola. 90% of those infected die. there are experimental treatments going on with these two patients. >> they will look at the patients and decide to give them the experimental therapies. they have been used in rare cases before. there is some optimism behind it. 60% to 90% mortality rates have been proper remote villages in africa. we still give the same therapy.

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well, now to a story that just about everyone seems to have an opinion on. the two-day suspension of baltimore ravens running back be ray rice stemming from a domestic violence incidents at an atlantic city hotel and casino. >> roger goodell spoke out yesterday and defended the length of the suspension on critics who say it is too lenient. cnn's alexandra field has the story. >> reporter: good morning. on top of this two-game suspension, christi and miguel, ray rice will have a fine of $530,000. that is not big enough of stemming the criticism at the nfl. >> my actions that night were totally inn excuse able. >> reporter: ray rice publicly apologizing to his fans and wife

for the first time since february stemming from the domestic violence incident at the atlantic city hotel. at the time, rice seen in the surveillance video dragging his then unconscious fiancee, out of the elevator. >> i replay that over and over. >> reporter: it is the nfl response to the matter that has some scratching heads. rice faces a two-game suspension. does the punishment fit the crime? >> how are they going to take the suspension? apparently that is a risk the nfl is willing to take. >> reporter: u.s. senators are sending a letter to the league asking for a heaftier punishmen. >> i think what is important here is ray has taken responsibility. he has been accountable for his actions. he recognizes he made a horrible mistake and it is unacceptable by his standards.

he has to work to reestablish himself. >> reporter: sports analysts say it is not entirely surprising. >> if you compare it to the history of the nfl, it is entirely in line with past suspensions for this type of conduct in the nfl. what it's out of line with is past suspensions that put in place by roger goodell during goodell's commissionership of the nfl. >> i don't think it is fair. the nfl is all about playing games, not about how to tell a person what to do. >> they are trying to say it is bad, but we don't really care. >> they are making millions of dollars off our children that are supposed to grow up looking at athletes making that money and that is cool. that isn't cool to touch your woman in any fashion. >> reporter: and as for the charges, the nfl confirms that ray rice has resolved the issue of the charges. he agreed to enter into a pre-trial intervention program. no jail time and christi and

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so the u.s. it is having direct impact on puerto rico. it is not an environment that will be favorable for strengthening. it will remain a tropical storm. however, it is going to create a lot of rainfall for puerto rico, dominican republic and move into portions of the turks and caicos and on into the bahamas. winds of 50 miles per hour. gusting up to 65. moving quickly at 22 miles per hour. it will not have time to dump incredible amounts of rain. flooding is a huge concern. this is an area that needs the rain. it is drought stricken. 1 to 3 inches of rain in the dominican republic. 3 to 5 inches in puerto rico. mountainous terrain will have an impact with the flooding. we will watch for that. the rain is definitely needed in this part of the world. this track takes it up to the u.s. and bending back to the

northeast. it keeps it away from the u.s. not making landfall at all. keeping it a tropical storm. possibly strengthening off the coast of new england. we could see higher than normal surf across the northeast of the u.s. also, we could see higher than normal risk of rip currents. that is really the only impact for the u.s. in the meantime, an increase in moisture over the weekend with the area of low pressure in the southeast. rain across the carolinas, southeast and northeast. we could see 1 to 2 inches of rain across the northeast, miguel, over the weekend. that includes new york city, d.c. and philly. >> wet weekend, but no bertha. thanks, jennifer. the life of a torn musician could be tough, but a one-man band named zach share s his lif.

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liberia. >> it is unclear which patients are coming to the united states first. both are expected to be treated at emory university's hospital. >> we have joined by the organization with which writebol serves as a missionary. bruce, thank you for being with us. do you know if indeed nancy is on the first flight here to the u.s.? >> christi, thank you. the good news is we have confirmation that jet is in the air. i don't know the timeframe. it is encouraging it is in the air with one of them. i don't have a confirmation on which one yet. >> i'm sorry. just to clarify, the jet is in the air, but we don't know if nancy is the one on it. is that what you are saying? >> correct. >> and what has been the flow of information to you guys and what do you understand about her condition? are you pleased with the way this has played out and both she

and the other victim will be on their way back to the u.s.? >> good question, miguel. we are encouraged. both of them were healthy enough to be able to take the trip. so we're encouraged by that. our doctors on the ground there in monrovia continue to monitor both of them before the flight and worked with the transfer of physicians on the airplane. >> we know the drug was administered to nancy this week. were you able to see how she reacted to that at all? >> you know, i don't know that information. the doctors that were attending to her were really hopeful that this would be and that's why we wanted to get that in there, but i don't have indication of how she responded to it. >> have you been able to speak to her since she was struck ill? when was the last time you spoke to her and what was her work

like there? >> personally i have not talked to nancy. what we want to focus for her to get well. i have been in daily contact with her husband david. he kept me up to abreast and daily briefings. david said she is stable, but critical condition because of the disease. she is responsive and we are encouraged at how she's doing. >> what about dr. kent brantly? do you know his condition? >> my last report was yesterday. his situation was the same. he is stable. remaining, of course, in critical condition. that's medical speak for he's got a very serious virus. again, he was ambulatory and able to converse and get up. that was encouraging.

>> do you know precisely how it was nancy contracted it? >> we have not been able to determine that. cdc was on the scene. they actually have been providing a lab for the country. we have samples go in and tested. they came out at our request to review our entire process. they also reviewed our hospital. we temporarily closed our hospital, but we plan on reopening it as soon as possible. we have another doctor that is ready to go back in and he should leave within 24 to 48 hours. >> all right. bruce johnson, president of the organization sim usa. we appreciate your time. >> thanks. >> thanks to you for starting your morning with us. we will be back at 10:00 for cnn newsroom. >> for international viewers, thank you for being with us.

"newsroom" continues for you. in the meantime, "smerconish" starts for the rest of you now. stick close. good morning. i'm michael smerconish. big issues to cover this morning including whether israel is justified in its use of force against hamas and why many in congress won't touch that issue. plus, president clinton said he could have killed osama bin laden, but we have the former head of the osama bin laden unit. he says there is much more to that story. and pot politics. should everybody just get stoned? we have a jam packed program. let's get started. we begin this morning in the middle east at the center of the turmoil this morning.