hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. there's lots of news happening this hour. meanwhile, family and friends, clergy members and celebrities, they all came together today for the funeral of michael brown. the service for the unarmed black teen who was fatally shot by a white splpolice officer. brown's father asked that there be no protests on this day. he called for a day of silence as he lays his son to rest. thousands pack the friendly temple missionary baptist church for the funeral service. brown's death touched off anger in the community, put a national spotlight on tensions between police and african-americans, and we're going to have much more live from st. louis coming up later this hour. meanwhile, it's a day of cleaning up and assessing the damage in napa, california. 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit the

area yesterday. nerves are still frays after dozens of aftershocks still rocked the area today. more than 200 people were injured and dozens of buildings are damaged to the point where they are now off limits. dance i dan simon is in napa for us. give us a sense of the scope of the damage. >> every building on this one block where i'm standing has been red tagged. meaning they are uninhabitable. this is an example of the kinds of things we're seeing. you can see, absolutely crumbled. you see all the bricks on the ground. at the bottom, you had an outdoor cafe. at the top, you had offices. what folks are doing now, what crews are doing now, they're basically assessing the damage, trying to make sure there are no more gas leaks. trying to make sure there are no water leaks. what we saw earlier today is that crews basically did a great job in restoring the power. now, it's working out some of the other infrastructure problems that you had. you have some roads that are

buckled. that's why so many streets throughout have been blocked off. you really can't get through. there's a sense that things are turning to normal. some of the public buses are running. some of the businesses are starting to open. it's going to be a long time before things truly return back to normal here in napa. wolf. >> any assessment to the damage of the economy of this area? this after all is the heart of wine country. it's a huge tourist destination as well. >> there's a huge concern that this is going to have a major impact on the local economy. especially the wine industry. this is a $13 billion industry here in napa. you've seen these pictures of barrels being toppled over. of the wine bottles toppled over, broken. the wineries are still assessing the damage. there is broad concern that there are going to be some steep losses, wolf. >> dan simon in napa for us. five days after the release of the video showing the execution

of james foley, another american was released. peter curtis was held by a different group than foley. our nick paton walsh has more. >> reporter: it is interesting that this particular group chose to release peter curtis right now. they are affiliated with al qaeda. they are described as a terrorist organization. they are at times rival, to isis who are now the target of u.s. air strikes. some speculating that perhaps they assisted mr. curtis in his release because they wanted to score some good pr opponents in the eyes of the west. after a week of horror, finally some good news. an american held hostage in syria by islamist rebels for nearly two years is free. 45-year-old peter fior curtis, a freelance journalist, released sunday after being held by the

al nusra front, a syrian rebel group with ties to al qaeda. his family thanking the governments of u.s. and qatar for their efforts. while the u.s. has denied any involvement and details about his release remains unclear. curtis was handed over to united nations peacekeepers in the golan heights who then released him to u.s. government officials. >> my name is peter -- >> reporter: these videos show curtis during his last few months in captivity. in this video, a rebel points a gun at his head while curtis speaks rapidly as if under duress. curtis was captured near the syrian/turkey border in october 2012 and held in aleppo with american journalist matthew sh rhea. the two locked up for months before planning their escape. shria breaking free through a window with curtis' help. curtis, however, got stuck trying to escape. >> i'm pulling him and i'm pulling him as hard as i could. we were not making any headway and we were making too much noise and the windows were open and the lights were above me and the sun was coming up. >> you must have known then that you had to leave him? >> yeah.

yeah, it was one of the hardest things i've ever had to do. i'm not going to have closure until he's home. >> reporter: curtis' release comes just five days after isis released a video of one of its militants beheading american journalist james foley. on sunday, his parents releasing a letter on facebook, that they say he composed in captivity. he talked about sharing one cell with 17 others and playing games made up of scraps they found. foley had a fellow hostage memorize the letter, dictating it to his family upon release. british officials close to identifying the isis militant responsible for the beheading. expert, say he spokes with a distinctly british accent. investigators making headway, using clues in the video to pinpoint the killer out of hundreds of british muslims who had joined isis. >> we were putting out a great deal of resource into identifying this person. i think we're not far away from that. >> reporter: peter curtis' family are clear, they don't believe money changed hands in this release. they don't know the full

details. they say this was a humanitarian effort. and that was the principal guiding factor behind his release. very many details, though, still to clarify, but one american family extraordinarily happy. >> nick paton walsh reporting for us, thank you. isis fighters have captured more territory, this time in syria. the insurgents cea s seized a my base in the north. it effectively gives insurgents control of the raqqah province. the syrian government saying it's willing to accept support from u.s. and others in its fight against isis. president obama considering taking military action to stop the surge of isis terrorists there. air strikes have slowed the extremist group from advancing in neighboring iraq but isis is thriving right now in the chaos of syria. cnn's barbara starr is joining us from the pentagon. barbara, the president is sounding serious about possible air strikes. what kind of pressure is he under to move in that direction,

not only launching air strikings in iraq but expanding to air strikes in syria? >> by all accounts, the president has yet to make a decision to give the go ahead for it. but some initial steps could be under way. what officials are telling us is before they would even do air strikes, they will have to fly reconnaissance flights into northern syria over this raqqah stronghold of isis. they need to get a very close-up look at the ground. where are the isis troops. where are the command and control centers, the training camps, the installations. that would be the targets that they want to go after, again, to sort of stop isis' momentum across this wide swath of northern syria. to deny them this safe haven. nobody thinks air strikes are going to put isis out of business, but they have seen, they say, some evidence in iraq that it's working, that it's putting them on the run a bit, that they're not as free to move around, that they can't just simply sweep into towns anymore,

so they're hopeful if they get the go ahead, they can do something similar in syria. still, make no mistake, it's a very long road. one of the questions, would the u.s. coordinate any of this with the syrian regime. right now, indications are the u.s. military would not coordinate with the assl acissa regime but if it got started this could go on for months. >> the u.s. does coordinate air strikes in iraq with the iraqi military as well as the kurdish peshmerga fighters. in syria, there's a free syrian army, as it's called. but it's rather limited in its capabilities. the u.s., if it doesn't want to coordinate with bashar al assad's military, it's going to have a problem in syria, right? >> well, it may get a bit difficult for the u.s. military. i mean, look, assad's forces have been fighting for the last several days to try and hold on to that air base you were just talking about that isis, by all

accounts, has now taken. you know, in this area of northern syria that is now essentially the isis safe haven, how much influence syrian forces, assad's regime, have here really part of the intelligence question. right now, all the indications are isis has a pretty good grip on this area. if the u.s. can get in and out with its aircraft, with a minimal risk of encountering the syrians or being shot down by them, it may be a risk that military planners are willing to take. one of the things we continue to hear is that this area of northern syria may not have the level of air defenses that you see the syrian regime maintain further south around baghdad -- pardon me, around damascus and other key areas. the syrian air defense is very well built up over the years, also along the coastline, because they feared an israeli incursion, if you will.

so this area in the north may be something that the u.s. can deal with without coordinating directly with the syrians. if you start air strikes, they could go on for months to have any meaningful impact. so we'll see if not coordinating with the assad regime to something they can stick to. >> we'll see what the president decides to do. barbara, thank you. let's get some more now on the funeral of michael brown, the 18-year-old whose death touched off protests and marches. jake, give us a little sense of the message we're hearing from brown's funeral service today, after days of angry protests. is there a sense of hope coming from the service? >> well, wolf, i think it's fair to say, apart from all the cameras and the celebrities, this is clearly a time of personal grief for michael brown's family. and one of the things that's been so important about the service is how much meaning those speaking have been trying

to find in his death. about what his death has spoken for. about who has been moved by this and about the fact that for many people michael brown's death is about a larger issue, about a larger movement, and that's the hope that i'm getting from people speaking here, that the idea that something more meaningful can come from this dialogue or perhaps more. wolf. >> is there a sense that the folks there will honor the desire by the family that they avoid protest marches at least on this memorial day? >> well, you can hear right now, wolf, people coming out of the overflow, chanting hands up, don't shoot, hands up. this is an -- the scene going on right now, young men, yelling, hands up, don't shoot. and a woman saying, i love you, but don't come out here and

protest, don't come out here with this. they have since quieted down. obviously, there is an effort to quell and quiet any of those passions, at least right here in the immediate vicinity of the funeral, wolf. >> i'm sure the brown family is pleased that three officials from the white house had decided to attend this funeral service, right? >> i'm sure they are. there are a lot of public officials here, i should point out that those who are affiliated with officer darren wilson feel like the presence of a white house delegation, the presence of other public officials here, is unfair, because obviously officer wilson has his side of the story. we have yet to hear what it is. from what we've heard from the police, they maintain that he was attacked by michael brown, and the idea that there are white house -- there is a white house delegation here, there are public officials here, to those

affiliated with officer wilson, and of course he has the presumption of innocence just like anyone else. they feel like that is the government weighing in and saying, well, we believe this version of events, we don't believe officer wilson's version of events. it's a very sensitive time. people who are coming to the funeral are trying to say this is about the loss of an 18-year-old, this is about one family's personal loss. but there is so much politics and protests surrounding it, there are those who take issue with the white house delegations presence, as well as the presence of other public officials, wolf. >> we'll be checking back with you, jake, throughout the day. jake will be anchoring the lead, 4:00 p.m. eastern, from st. louis, ferguson, area. much more coming up on "the lead." jake, thanks very much. coming up here, the latest on the federal investigation into michael brown's death. was racial hostility a factor in the shooting? also coming up, we'll have

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he's become the new face of isis. i'm talking about the man who executed the american journalist james foley and whose british accent may be the clue to who he really is. brian what do we know about this man? >> we're learning the search for his identity is intense. the forensic investigation into that video, to be able to name who that man is, is very intense. asked by our own candy crowley as to whether they have the name of the person would did this, the british ambassador to the u.s. said we're close. it doesn't mean we know if

they're that close to getting the name, or are they close to being able to tell us who the name is. do the british know the name and they're not able to tell us yet who it is? we do know we're close to having a name of somebody to be revealed later this week. we do know from our conversations -- excuse me with british officials, that they're going over every piece of this video. the voice on it of course is key. the background. the terrain where they were. they're looking at the editing of the video because the video does go black during the apparent moment when he's being killed. those are all the forensic things we're looking at in this video. of course we're told they're close to being able to say the name of this person. >> do we know how many british citizens are part of isis in iraq and syria now? >> our conversations with intelligence officials here in the united states indicates there ahundreds of british citizen, somewhere between 400 and 500 british citizens who have gone to fight in syria and

within them, hundreds are members of isis. there's a strong british contingent of fighters within isis. americans, only a handful. british, french and german, they number in the hundreds, those numbers in isis it the scary thing is of course wolf we've all been reporting they all have western passports, they don't necessarily need a visa to get back in the united states, so they can travel here fairly easily and that's what u.s. officials, you can sense their concern over this is ratcheting up. >> the british ambassador says they're close. we'll see how close they are to identifying this individual. thanks very much for that report. in the days leading up to the killing of the journalist james foley, isis made two demands. before the terrorists demanded a $132 million ransom, they offered a prisoner swap. in exchange for foley, they want a woman released who's serving 86 years in a texas prison. jean casarez introduces us to the woman known as lady al qaeda. >> what i'm saying is simply that a woman is not an unpaid

slave. >> reporter: this is dr. sadiki, also called lady al qaeda, a pakistani national, her release from a u.s. prison was one of the demands made by isis in exchange for american journalist james foley before he was beheaded by his captors. in an e-mail sent to foley's family on august 12th, isis wrote, we have also offered prisoner exchanges to free the muslims currently in your detention like our sister dr. afia sidiqqi. >> she is an icon, she is the poster girl for jihad. and in that way, she served as a sort of rallying point. >> she is the premier symbol of the muslim woman in distress. >> reporter: sadiqqi earned degrees from mit and bran dies university outside boston. this petite 44-year-old woman, a neuro scientist and mother of three, lived in the u.s. for more than a decade, and in 2003,

she disappeared. in 2004, was put on an fbi alert list, considered a clear and present danger. in 2008, sadiqqi was stopped by afghanistan national police for acting suspicion outside a government building. according to court documents, officers searched her handbag and found numerous documents describing the creation of explosives, chemical weapons and other weapons involving biological material and radiological agents. handwritten notes by sadiqqi referred to a mass casualty attack. listing various locations in the united states, including the empire state building, wall street and the brooklyn bridge. when american authorities came to question her the next day, she grabbed one of their rifles and started shooting. sadiqqi was flown to the u.s. where she was never charged with terrorism but convicted of attempted murder. sadiqqi claimed she was framed. >> she interreupted her trial

repeatedly with heated outbursts, anti-semitic outbursts about jews, all kinds of things. the judge found she was mentally capable of standing trial, but that she needed some sort of treatment and that's why he sentenced her to a prison in texas where she is able to receive psychiatric care. >> reporter: she has a notorious in-law. she married the nephew of khalid shaikh mohammed, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attackings. basically, is she a scientist or a terrorist? >> she's definitely a terrorist sympathi sympathizer, there's no doubt about that. and she was helping terrorists. but she was never -- she's never been accused of actually committing a terrorist act herself. >> reporter: whether she has committed a terrorist act or not, isis clearly considers her to be of great value. jean casarez, cnn, new york. just ahead, hackers target online gaming networks but did

they also target a passenger jet with a sony executive on board? >> leater, many questions still remain in the shooting death of michael brown. so far, the fbi has interviewed more than 200 people. we're about to get an update on the federal investigation.

over the weekend, hackers took down sony playstation and other online gaming networks. the american airlines flight with a sony executive on board was forced to land in phoenix on sunday after the same group

reportedly sent out a tweet claiming there were explosives on the plane. our aviation correspondent rene marsh. >> this is american airlines flight 362. it was supposed to go from dallas to san diego but was forced to divert to phoenix. what we also know, two fighter jets had to be scrambled as this plane was coming in for a landing. it apeers this is all because of a hacker group that goes by the name lizard squad and they say they'll keep on doing what they're until the bombing of isis troops stops. on board flight 362 was the president of sony online. apparently, this group knew he was on board, because he tweeted directly at him, as well as american airlines, saying -- i believe we have the tweet there, that we were concerned there were reports of flight 362 from dallas to san diego had explosives on board. the tweet went on to say, look

into this. they also paired that tweet with images from september 11th. should tell you the plane landed safely. however, cameras did capture that sony exec when he landed. he sent out his own tweet. essentially confirming that, indeed, the plane was diverted, saying he wasn't going to discuss any more than that, and he ended the tweet saying justice will find these guys. of course, no explosives were on board. that being said, the fbi is investigating. we're talking about a false threat here that's a criminal offense so they're looking into it. you know, people believe eventually they will find out who's behind this. >> diverting a jet, a passenger jet, and foreing fighter jets to go up there, those seem like two very different things. >> i mean, like i said this is a -- this is a criminal offense when you have this false threat

that you are making towards an airliner which had passengers on board and now you have f-16s called into the picture. so now the fbi wants to know who is behind this. they told cnn that they are -- this investigation is very much under way at this point, wolf. >> do we know if there's some sort of late connection between the lizard group and sony? >> not only did they bring down the online game bing, but they o appeared to know this exec was on this flight. we should mention, they also took down other online gaming sites as well. so not just specific to sony, but i'm sure this is something the fbi will be -- >> this is a federal investigation right now. this is a big deal. >> yes. >> all right, thanks, rene, for that report. still to come were michael brown's civil rights violated when he was shot and killed by police?

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the other is a federal civil rights probe, focused on whether the killing involved racial hostilit hostility. evan perez joins us. what's the status of the civil rights probe? how is it different from what the grand jury is doing? i think we've just lost our connection. we're going to try to reconnect with him and get an update. evan, are you there? give us an update on the federal. what do we know? >> well, wolf, we know it's still at the very, very beginning of this. we're talking about a long process. the fbi, as you said, has done about 200 interviews with people here in the neighborhood where the shooting occurred. also, they're going to not only look at those interviews, they're going to look at some of

the practices of the police department to discern whether this officer or the police department has a bigger problem. officials are very much expecting that the justice department is going to be scrutinizing this police department for the next couple of years to look at, for example, the pattern of stops of african-americans who are passing through ferguson. and also looking at whether or not any other incidents of violent which have happened in the last couple of years, wolf. >> if the county grand jury does foot hand up an idea, how will that impact the federal investigation? >> well, you know, there are separate investigations. so it does have a role in the sense that the feds will look at whether or not there was something in the county investigation that they can pick up and then bring into the federal investigation. that's why we fully expect the federal government will wait to see how this investigation turns out, before they decide whether to bring any civil rights

charges, wolf. >> so this could go on for weeks, indeed, months, there's no time limit, right? >> right. also, this can steins play out in years. we're talking about, for example, as a comparison, the trayvon martin investigation is still ongoing. it is something that obviously has been in the spotlight in the past. this is exactly what the federal officials i've talked to are preparing us for, that this is going to be a long time before they get to the end of this. >> if the federal investigation determines there was racial hostili hostility, what happens? >> well, you know, they can bring charges against this officer and they can also, in the next few months, find out whether they want to look at ferguson police department, perhaps the st. louis police department, and look at this area, whether there's a bigger problem, whether there's some changes needed, whether there's some oversight that needs to be

had. so these police departments can improve their relationship with the community. clearly from the disturbances we saw in the last few days here, we believe there perhaps is a bigger problem here. >> evan perez in ferguson, missouri, for us, evan, thanks very much for that report. up next, we're going to go back to napa. we have some dramatic pictures coming in from the damage from yesterday's earthquake. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here

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>> kind of a shock. that's the biggest earthquake i've ever been in. i was asleep on the couch downstairs. then, you know, you wake up, i thought it was a thunderstorm, all of a sudden, i see a chandelier and the dining room shaking. everything, you know, things on tables, they're falling on, glass breaking. i ran upstairs to regroup with my family. my little brother, he's 11 years old, he's startled and rattled as well. >> i was asleep and was woken from my very deep sleep. it feet lilt like a ride, felt being on a roller coaster. it felt longer than it actually was. it felt like it was occurring for about five minutes. >> i do not have power. we do not have water. i'm first of all thankful i'm okay and everyone we know is okay. >> it gives me the chills. this morning when it was really quiet down here, it is -- it's like a scene out of a movie. it's, like, really crazy and eerie. >> it looks like a fairly

typical kind of earthquake. the magnitude is much larger than we've seen for a long time. >> the hard est part was having to deal with the lack of water for the incident and knowing that you had structures immediately threatened like the ones that were burning. you pretty much knew you were destined to lose additional units. so there wasn't a lot of hope of saving that particular unit. was very difficult. >> we currently have four structures to the ground. mobile homes. and 6 to 8 with varying degrees of damage. >> anybody hurt? >> at this time, we have no report of injuries and none of the occupants are reported missing associated with the units that are burned to the ground. >> serious earthquake out in napa. out in the california. just ahead, hamas sets up firing squads as they respond to new

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israel is now continuing to liken hamas fighters to isis militants with prime minister netanyahu call them one and the same. the two sides, israel and hamas, continue to trade rockets and air strikes. as our ian lee reports, hamas is blaming part of their troubles on suspected spies. >> reporter: a death sentence read aloud by hamas militants. telling this crowded mosque, we're implementing god's judgment by executing traders of god and country. moments later, their justice comes swiftly. a bullet for each man. a graphic warning for a crowd of onlookers. one that resonates with the people of gaza. each spy deserves the death penalty, this man tells me. without spies, israel would have no information. hamas says at least 22 alleged

collaborators have been executed since the war began. there is a war and dangerous spies are operating in gaza, says this hamas spokesman. they forced us to take harsh measures in the form of executing these spies. it sends a strong message to israel and other spies. the militant group blames collaborators for recent air strikes that killed three hamas commanders in southern gaza. 18 people were executed publicly the following day. this is where those alleged collaborators were killed. you can see the blood-stained ground and a bullet hole in the wall. hamas says these are necessary actions during a time of war. but human rights groups argue that it's this time particularly where you shouldn't lose sight of the rule of law. >> they are tantamount to extradition executions.

>> reporter: this human rights advocate criticizes the lack of transparency during the trials. he condemns not just public executions but every death sentence. >> we are worried that more executions may be coming out in the future. >> reporter: that's likely to happen again, as the war enters its eighth week. israeli strikes continue. so, too, does hamas's hunt for collaborators. ian lee, cnn, gaza city. >> ian's joining us on the phone from gaza city. is there any movement at all in try to get that cease-fire back on track, getting these indirect negotiations in cairo back on track? what's the latest on that? >> reporter: well, there's definitely a lot of diplomatic efforts here with hamas. the palestinian authority and the egyptians, they just can't seem to come into agreement, at

least so far. a lot of people here in gaza would like to see some sort of cease-fire. a lot of people here are war weary. they would like to see this war come to an end. they've had enough. but, still, they want to get some sort of conflict they don't walk away empty-hand empty-handed. and i think that's holding up a lot of these discussions, especially for a permanent cease-fire, hamas wants some sort of listing of what they say is prestige of gaza, goods to flow in and out. and really that's been the sticking point we have seen all along. >> what about today? it's now nighttime. nighttime over there, approaching 9:00 p.m. in gaza where you are. was it exceptionally busy as far as hamas rockets and missiles going into israel, israeli air strikes launching attacks in gaza? what happened today? >> reporter: well wolf, it has been a fairly busy couple of days here. we have seen a lot of rockets go

out and israeli air strikes than when israelis had their ground troops here. there was a lot of fire from artillery, from mortar rounds. at this time we're seeing a lot of air strikes. and a lot of these air strikes came to be pinpoint strikes on cars, on houses. but we saw the other day a 14-story building hit 20 minutes prior to that. they were given a warning. so everyone was able to evacuate. but still, despite that, there has been -- the death toll is still rising here in gaza. every day we see at least a dozen people killed in these sorts of strikes. >> the israelis claim that 11 or 12-story building was a command and control -- contained a command and control center for the hamas military. have you been able to check that

assertion out? >> reporter: well, the people there denied it flat out. hamas has been tight-lipped. and going to this area, there is nothing that really is left of this building that you can make out that would be some sort of command and control center. it really is hard to tell when you have these two narratives, hamas saying it was just a civilian building and israel saying that it was a command and control center. when you -- especially if you haven't been in that area, it's really hard to sift through that rubble and find anything. but that's where you have to just take it as two different narratives. >> ian lee, working for us in gaza. ian, thanks very much. be careful over there. up next, there are new tensions rising now along the border between ukraine and russia as the country's leaders get ready to meet face-to-face. we're going to examine what's at stake. 150 years of swedish experience in perfecting the rich,

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to the crisis in ukraine now. russia says they want to send another humanitarian convoy to areas held by pro-russian rebels. that call comes just a day before a critical meeting between leaders of the two countries. our matthew chance and will ripley take a closer look at the issues and what's at stake. >> i'm matthew chance in moscow with the russian perspective on the summit. >> i'm will ripley in kiev,

reporting on the view from ukraine. >> russia has for months been insisting on two things. a cease-fire on the ground in eastern ukraine and direct negotiations between the government in kiev and the pro-russian rebels. so far, vladimir putin has shown no sign of backing down from that position. and has, in fact, according to western officials, been increasing support for the rebels. so unless there has been a dramatic change of heart from the kremlin, i expect a message may be make concessions or face more bloodshed. >> ukraine wants the control under the international monetary agency and made allegations about russia interfering in their conflict it to stop. they want to stop supplying the pro-russian separatists with weapons and ammunition.

>> ukraine is highly dependent on russia economically. its current leadership, once they reorientate the country towards the west. but presently needs access to russian markets. and in particular, russian energy. in fact, one of the issues that i expect will be high on the mind of president poroshenko is that winter is almost upon us in this part of the world. and ukraine will desperately need vast quantities of russian gas, to heat its homes and cook its food. so the need for a deal with russia makes a thaw in relations even more pressing. >> right now ukraine knows they don't have an upper hand with russia, because russia is such a big neighbor. they control the gas prices, a lot of economic ties. so what ukraine is trying to do to reduce that reliance on russia is to more closely align with the european union. trying to integrate their trade and their energy sectors with the eu and trying to, of course, increase economic ties, as well. so, again, they can reduce their dependence on russia.

internationally, he's under enormous pressure. western sanctions have been biting and ratcheted up, especially since the downing of the malaysian airliner over eastern ukraine. more eu and u.s. sanctions could be imposed if russia continues to support the rebels there. but in terms of pressure at home, the impact has been limited. putin's popularity remains sky-high. the key figures around him who have been sanctioned remain more or less loyal. the big problem, of course, his big problem, could be if that starts to change. >> ukrainians have huge expectations of their new president. but the public opinion seems to be swaying in his favor right now. in recent polls, more than half of people surveyed now say they support the operation against pro-russian separatists, a number that has gone up. the number of ukrainians elected poroshenko with more than half the vote but with a long list of things they want him to do. of course, solve the crisis in

eastern ukraine is top of mind, but also weed out government corruption and improve the economy. >> will ripcally, matthew chance, good reporting. we'll have much more on the putin and poroshenko meeting tomorrow, of course. that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m., a two-hour edition of "the situation room." meantime, "newsroom" with ana cabrera filling in for brooke baldwin starts right now. >> hello, i'm ana cabrera in for brooke today. right now the funeral for michael brown is wrapping up. he is, of course, the unarmed 18-year-old shot to death by a police officer in broad daylight more than two weeks ago. there is his mother, giving hugs. thanking people for coming. his death, of course, sparked protests in ferguson, missouri, and all across the nation. we will take you there live to the funeral and show you more reaction in just a few minutes. but first, we have to start today with isis, because this isis terrorist army, as s