thanks to actors brad stein and fred thompson and thank you to you for being part of the "the real story." >> want to begin with a fox news alert and a live look at the united nations where the security council is set to vote on a resolution about the plane crash in ukraine one that demands international access to the site for investigators and a cease fire in the area. we are watching that this hour. russia has shown some reluctance and as a permanent member of the security council, moscow could hit it with a veto. high drama this hour at the u.n. >> first breaking news this moment. this afternoon, russian backed rebels in ukraine say they'll handover the doomed jumbo jet black boxes, both of them, to

malaysian officials any moment now. comes after president obama asked whether the rebels are trying to hide? the president accuses militants in ukraine of removing evidence. as victims of the jumbo jet attack lie in limbo, in flimsy black bags. u.s. officials say they have powerful evidence showing that the rebels blew the malaysian airlines 777 out of the sky, tilling close to 300 innocent people. now days after the attack the rebels finally agreed to hand over the plane's black boxes, but as aviation analysts point out the black boxes will likely show only what we already know, the plane was blown up. we'll show you the huge crash scene. the burning wreckage in this field. you see to the area that is now covered, and singed on the ground. and the scattered pieces of the jet stretch out for miles. aviation experts say the most important evidence would be pieces of the missile, something that separatists would have had days to remove if they have not

done that already from that field. that, president obama says, and in his accusatory tone, calls the separatists a group of people trying to cover up. >> international teams already in place prepared to conduct the investigation, and recover the remains of those who have been lost, but unfortunately, the russian-backed separatists who control the area continue to block the investigation. they have repeatedly prevented international investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage. >> well, for their part, the rebels deny shooting down the jet. russian's president vladimir putin points the finger at ukraine, saying this would not have happened if the country was not fighting in the first place. but putin has not denied the rebels shot down the airplane. earlier in the day, a train carrying the victims' bodies finally leaving the scene. and journalists there report the train's cooling system broke

down overnight. the smell of rotting bodies, thick in the air. and adding to the outrage, victim's families, people have been stealing valuables from the dead. our producer on scene took this picture of luggage that somebody dumped out. she found cases and eye glasses and empty watch and somebody had an airline travel kit and stole a tiny tube of toothpaste. steve harrigan is live in don donetsk which is seeing fierce fighting between the ukraine government, military, and the rebels. what did you see there today? >> reporter: bill, we actually saw a tank fight in part of this city of one million strong, is a speak to you now we can hear again rockets being fired. it really sounds like thunder. those are likely grad rockets being launched. both sides have both rockets and tanks. the fight going on around the train station. you can hear the rumbles.

four people killed in the fighting today. some unusual scenes with the civilians, too, who have not fled the city already. many people with suitcases running for the hills to get away from this shelling other. people really after three months of fighting tack it casually, smoking a cigarette as if they're in a rainstorm. so very different attitude to a day of violence. >> what about the bodies? what do we know about what is happening with them now, steve? >> as those rockets continue to land, probably about two miles away near the city center here, the bodies have begun to move after several days of delay. those refrigerated train cars started to the north in rebel controlled territory, they're moving to government controlled territory, eventually the 281 bodies will be flown to the netherlands where the dna nails will begin as the first steps to returning the remains to families.

>> people had bodies landing in their yards. how are they dealing with this now? and what are they telling you? >> reporter: it's amazing, really, to talk to some of these people in the small villages near eastern ukraine that woke up and suddenly parts of plane, but even worse, bodies that had fallen from 30,000 feet in grotesque positions. bodies might be moving now out of ukraine for proper burial eventually but the scars here in some of these victims still remain. -- some of these villages still remain. the wings, the nose, the landing gear from malaysian flight 17 fell across small villages in eastern ukraine. so, too, did the bodies of passengers. andre found one in his back yardyard. the ilk brings the 78-year-old to tears. i've been through the war with the germans, famine, but this is worse. a child was found near his

frontyard, number 28. nadia's cell phone is filled with pictures of the dead from her yard. her street. her child's school. >> translator: after the suppression we ran out to see what happened, she says. and they were falling everywhere. alone, here and gone, in sunflower fields, wheat fields, market with a rag or a ribbon. >> heavy artillery firing the tank fire we're seeing between the two sides and still hearing at this hour, shows just how difficult it's going to be to carry out what many world leaders are calling for, full-scale investigation into the crash scene 40 miles from here. >> you're right about that. steve harrigan on the ground. thank you. breaks news now from the texas border, governor rick perry and the state's attorney general holing a news conference. the governor saying he is deploying as many as a thousand national guard troops to the area to help with border

security. sources sayon]ñ it will cost $12 million a month. the area has been struggling to deal with the surge of unaccompanied children, illegally entering the u.s. these past couple of months. the white house says so far in july, agents have apprehended 150r?ak children every day alog that border. that's down from about 355 children a day in june. governor perry saying you cannot have national security without border security. we're monitoring this and will have more on that as it develops from the texas-mexican border. president obama about to award the medal of honor to one of our nation's heroes inch 2008, former army staff sergeant ryan pitts fought off dozens of taliban militants in eastern afghanistan. tough territory, even though he was losing blood from wounds in his legs and arms, i show you a live look at the white house where staff sergeant pitts will

become the ninth living recipient. we'll take you there live when the ceremony begins. first, lea gabrielle is here. >> such an honor to be able to meet him and to have million here live to tell the story. the battle was one of the deadliest battles in afghanistan, nine men killed, 27 wounded, and pitts and his unit found themselves completely surrounded by the enemy. in fact, in such close proximity that pitts had to fight by himself at one opinion for more than an hour when he was injured so badly he couldn't stand up and was cooking off his grenades, pulling the pin and then holding on6kr7ñ to the gree forp]óññ a few seconds before throwing it because he didn't want the enemy to be able to pick it up and throw it back. so, listen to what he had to say. >> this was an enemy that outnumbered us, had us surrounded, element of surprise, high ground, and we held our ground. >> the soldiers at vehicle

patrol base held their drown as an estimated 2300 taliban fighters launched a branch of rockets and machine gun fire. >> the one tithe i had over the radio to give me an understanding what was going on up there. >> pitts told his commander that everyone else at his post was dead or falling back and anyone fighters were so close, soldiers heard voices in the background of the radio call. >> i thought it was my time, but a lot of guys had already given their lives. so i owed it to do the same. >> he was gravely wounded. shrapnel through both legs and some of his torso and couldn't stand up but he was propping himself up and firing his machines gun, taking off grenades and shooting a grenade launcher. >> the army says pitts fought like that for more than an hour to understand his bravery we visited his home town in rural

new hampshire. >> growing up, always a leader. a good kid, and just kind of has that natural ability in him. always put everybody else before him. >> and now he is doing it again. >> i see it as a new mission for me. and a responsibility to tell our story. >> pitts says he'll wear the medal of honor on behalf of the nine men who died in the battle. corporal john than i ayers. sergeant israel garcia and -- valor was everyone that day. i didn't do anything greater than anybody else. >> those names are the reason that staff sergeant pitts says he is receiving the award. >> age 28. we watch him now from the white house and the president. >> american soldiers. soon, under the relentless fire, all nine of these men were wounded or killed.

insurgents broke through the wire. that post was on the verbal -- verge of falling, giving the enemy a perch from which to devastate the base below. against that onslaught, one american held the line. just 22 years old. nearly surrounded. bloodied but unbowed. the soldier we recognize today with our nation's highest military decoration, the medal of honor, staff sergeant ryan pitts. now, i don't want to embarrass ryan but the character he displayed that day was clearly forged early. i'm told that in kindergarten, when asked what he wanted to be when he drew up, the drew a picture of a soldier in the fifth grade a teacher sent home a note that described ryan in words that would be familiar to all those who know him today, ryan, she wrote, is a very

special human being. and ryan pitts you see the humility and loyalty that defines america's men and women in uniform. of this medal he says it's not mine alone. it belongs to everybody that was there that day because we did it together. so i want to welcome those who were there that day. ryan's brothers in arms and those who welcome -- are going to be welcoming him into their ranks. the members of the medal of honor society. we are very proud of them and we are honored by the presence of the families of our fallen heroes as well. we welcome ryan's family. many from new hampshire. including his wonderful wife, amy. i have to take a pause because they are actually celebrating -- ryan and amy -- their second anniversary today. as ryan put it, it's going to be tough topping this one. [laughter] >> but let me just give you a piece of advice as somebody who

has been married over 20 years. you should try. [laughter] >> i'm just saying. don't rest on your laurels. after just two years. we welcome their gorgeous son, one-year-old lucas. who ryan is beginning to teach a love for all things new england. of course the red sox and the bruins, and the celtics, and the pats. i want you to try and imagine the extraordinary circumstances in which ryan and his team served. this was the summer of 2008, and this is a time when our forces in afghan were stretched thin and our troops were deployed to isolated outposts. they had just arrived. just days before. and they were still building their very small base, a handful of armored vehicle in fighting positions, foxholes and sanbags. one report later concluded, had

signature vulnerabilities. parts of the village sat on higher ground. on every side mountains soared 10,000 feet into the sky. heavy equipment to help build their defenses was delayed. in the 100-degree heat, the soldiers ran low on water. and the aerial surveillance they were counting on was diverted to other missions. early that morning in the predawn darkness they spotted several men in the mountains, but before ryan and his team could take action the entire valley erupted. machine gun fire and mortar and rocket-propelled grenades poured down from every direction. those 200 insurgents were firing from ridges and from the village and from trees, down at the base of vehicle exploded, scattering its missiles back at our soldiers. it was, said a soldier, hell on earth. up at their tiny post ryan and

his team were being pounded. almost instantly every one of them was wounded. ryan was hit by shrapnel in the arm and both legs and was bleeding badly. already three american soldiers in that valley had fallen, and then a fourth, as the insurgents moved in, ryan picked up a grenade, pulled the pin, healed the live grenade for a moment, then eat, and hurling it so they couldn't throw it back, and did it again and again. unable to stand, he pulled himself up on his knees and manned a machine gun. soldiers from the base'll made a daring run, dawning bullets and explosions, and joined the defense. but now the enemy was inside the post, so close they were throwing rocks at the americans. so close they came right up to the sandbags. eight american soldiers a had now fallen and ryan pitts was the only living soldier at the post. the enemy was so close ryan could hear their voices. he whispered into thadeow, he

was the only one left and was running out of ammo. i was going to die, he remembers, and made my peace with it, and then prepared to make a last stand. bleeding and barely conscious, ryan threw his last grenades, grabbed a grenade launcher and fired nearly straight up so the grenade came back down on the enemy just yards away. one insurgent wases now right on top of the post, shooting down, until another team of americans showed up and drove him back. as one of his teammates said, had it not been for ryan pits that post almost certainly would have been overrun. even with reinforcements, the battle was not over. a another wave of rocket propelled grenades slammed into the post. nine americans were now gone. and still the fighting raged. ryan worked the radio, helping target the air strikes that were hitting dangerously close, yards away, and with those strikes the tide of the battle began to turn. eventual hill the insurgents fell back. ryan, and his fellow soldiers,

held their ground. this medal, ryan says, is an opportunity to tell our story. there was valor everywhere, according to ryan. and so today we also pay tribute to all who served with such valor that day. shielding their wounded buddies with their own bodies, picking up unexploded missiles with their hands and carrying them away. running through the gunfire to reinforce that post. fighting through their injuries and never giving up. helicopter pilots and med-evac crews who came in under heavy fire. said one soldier, never in my career have i seen such bravery and sacrifice. and so i would ask all those who served on the ground and in the air to please stand, those who are here today. [applause]

[applause]y)íwz >> most of all, ripe says he considers this medal a memorial for the guys who didn't come home. today we honor nine american soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for us all. the son who observed love like a spock. the expectant father whose dream would come true, beautiful baby girl. specialist sergio a abat. a boy who dominated the soccer fields, fell in love with motorcycles and their in that remote outpost took a direct hit in the helmet and kept on fighting. corporal jonathan ayers. the photographer whose beautiful

pictures captured the spirit of the afghan people and wrote to his family, afghanistan is exactly where i wanted to be. corporal jason bogart. the father who loved serving with his son, the platoon leader who led a dash through the gunfire to post to reinforce his men. first lieutenant jonathan bostrom, an immigrant from mexico who became a proud american soldier on his third tour, whose final thoughts wereñ of his family and wife, leslie. sergeant israel garcia. a young man of deep faith who

poker table. and the youngest, just 20 years old, the little brother of the platoon who love to play guitar and said his dad did everything in his life with passion, corporal gunner zwilling. these american patriots lived to serve us all and died to protect each of us, and their legacy lives on in the hearts of all who love them still, especially the families, mothers, fathers, wives, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters to you they're -- their familieses, i know know words can match the depth of your loss but this nation will hohn honor your soldiers now and forever and i would ask the gold star families from that deployment to please stand, including ali kaler, age 11, and jake bostrom who this week turns 12. please stand. [applause] [applause]

this is a story ryan wants us to remember. soldiers who loved help other like brothers and who fought for each other. families have made a sacrifice that our nation must never forget. ryan says i think we owe it to them to live lives worthy of their sacrifice, and he is absolutely right. as commander in chief i believe one of the ways we can do that is by heeding the lessons, when this nation sents our troops into harm's way, they deserve a sound strategy and a well-defined mission and,0[vç de

the forces and support to get the jobs done and that's what we owe soldiers like ryan and all the comrades that were lost. that's how we can truly honor all those who gave their lives that day. that's how, as a make, we can remain worthy of their sacrifice. i know that's a view that is shared by our÷?

>> the president of the united states of america, authorized by act of congress, march 3, 1863. has awarded iná>y.é$e name of congress the medal of honor to, sergeant ryan m. pitts, united states army, for conspicuous gallantry at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. sergeant ryan m.pits distinguished himself by extraordinary acts of heroism at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, while serving as a forward observer in

second platoon, chosing company, second battalion airborne, 503rd infantry rental minimum. 173rd airborne brigade, against an armed enemy, at vehicle patrol case kaler, kunar province in afghanistan. during that morning, a well-organized antiafghan force consisting of over 200 members initiated a close proximity stained and complex assault using rocket o'peled grenade, machine guns and small arms fire on the patrol base. an immediate wave of rounds engulfed the observation post, wounding sergeant pitts and inflicting heavy casualties. sergeant pitts had been knocked to the ground and was bleeding heavily from shrapnel wounds to his arms and legs with with

incredible toughness and resolve he subsequently took control of the observation post and returned fire on the enemy. as the enemy drew near, sergeant pitts through grenades, holding them after the pin was pulled and the safety lever was released to allow a nearly immediate detonation on the hostile forces. unable to stand on his own and near death because of the severity of his wounds and blood loss, sergeant pits continued to lay oppressive fire until a two-man reinforcement team arrived. sportses quickly assisted them by giving up his main weaponon and gathering ammunition, all while continuing lobbing grenades this will expended. at this point sergeant pits crawled to the northern position raid and we described the situation to the command post as the enemy continued to try and isolate theelód observation pos. with the enemy close enough for him to hear their voices and with total disorder for his life, sergeant pitts whispered

in reports and provided information they command post used to provide support. sergeant pitts' courage and steadfast commitment to defense of his unit and ability to fight prevented the enemy from overrunning the post and capturing fallen american soldiers and ultimately prevented the enemy from gaining fortified positions on higher ground from which to attack the base. sergeant ryan m. pitts' extraordinary heroism and selflessness, above and beyond the call of dudey, are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great company on himself, company c, second battalion asia bore, 3,503rd 3,503rd infantry regimen in the united states army.

[applause] >> it's not bad to stand up on this one. [applause] >> age 28, sergeant ryan pitts, from new hampshire, also lived a lifetime, six years ago in afghanistan, moment that he will remember for a lifetime, and we remember him and thank him as well. medal of honor, number nine.

>> while that was going on, more breaking news from the fox news deck. u.n. security council just approved the unanimous revolution demand the rebels open the crash site to international investigators and call for a cease fire in the area. well-diplomats said they made changes to the wording to help push russia to approve the measure. russia is a permanent member of the security council, had the power to veto the resolution but did vote for the measure. jonathan hunt is live in our new york newsroom, watching this for us now. how did this go down? >> well, bill, a 15-0 vote in favor of this resolution, avoiding the possibilities, as you mentioned, of a russian veto, but to avoid that possibility, this resolution is basically come down and boiled down to the very least that the united nations security council could do. it of course condemns the

shooting down of flight mh17, and then there are two important paragraphs wayne to get to -- i want to get to. the u.n. security council, quote, demands the armed groups in control of the crash site and the surrounding area, refrain from any actions that may my compromise the integrity of the crash site and then it guess on this security council, quote, demands those responsible for this incident be held to account and that all states cooperate fully with efforts to establish accountability, now, that point was then addressed by the australian foreign minister, addressing this security council. her name is julie bishop. she talked about the need for a real investigation. here she is. >> you must have answers. we must have justice. we owe it to the victims and their families to determine what

happened and who was responsible. >> who was responsible, but that is one of the points of this resolution, bill. it clear live does not point a finger at anybody in its text, although some of the speakers are again saying that clearly russia bears ultimate responsibility here, and in fact the uk ambassador to the un, just said that this, quote, should serve as a wakeup call to moscow. >> that may be the case. jonathan. what next at the u.n.? have they gone as far as they're going to go. >> they've gone as far as they can go, quite bluntly. this power of veto in the security council belongs to russia, belongs to five permanent members. the others of those are britain, china, france, and, of course, the united states. any of those five can veto any resolution they don't like at

any time. and clearly russia is not going to sign on to any language which directly points the finger at itself or even at the rebel groups in ukraine that it clearly, according to u.s. officials and many others, has backed politically and militarily. remember, they have said, those u.s. officials and others, that this was a russian missile fired from a russian launcher, and most likely given directly to the rebels by the russian government. so, clearly everybody believes russia is ultimately responsible for this. they simply cannot get away with saying that at the united nations because of the power of that potential russian veto. >> when there's more news, we'll bring you back. there's breaking news on the black boxes. we'll have that for you, malaysian airlines offering thousands of dollars to the families of the dead after the

crash of flight 17. beyond the 300 lives lost, though, lawyers say the final cost could easily be millions of dollars. who could end up paying, those who shot down the plane or the airline for flying in a dangerous area. that's next and a lot more inside the fox news deck on a busy monday afternoon.

a fox report now. headlines from across america. first stop, illinois. police in chicago say they have not made any arrests in the shooting death of an 11-year-old girl at a sleepover. investigators say somebody opened fire at a rival gang member and missed and the the bullet flew through a window and killed their girl. washington state now retired marine died while trying to protect his home from the wildfire east of seattle. according to sheriffs there. the marine apparently died from

a heart attack. workers say the fire has destroyed 150 homes already. florida now. folks outside tampa say a giant sinkhole swallowed a sidewalk and damaged a home, is getting even bigger today. crews have evacuated several homes but so far no reports of anybody injured. breaking news on the black boxes from flight 17. after this.

samantha power at the u.n. now delivering her address now after the security council voted napoli to open -- voted unanimously to open the area and allow an investigation to get underway. >> on saturday or even yesterday; it turns out that only this morning, coincidentally the very morning the security council was meeting to discuss the investigation, did president putin finally issue a public call to ensure the security of international experts. however -- this is critically important -- president putin still did not direct his call to the separatists who have threatened the experts, and over

whom he has enormous influence. presidenthé#- poroshenko has consistently done everything within his power since the crash to allow capable investigators full and unfettered access to the crime scene. he has been willing to involve uko, the netherlands and other international players, haling their independence. russia sent a message to the illegal armed groups it supports. we have your backs. this is what e the message russia has sent by never publicly calling them to lay down weapons and by massing thousands of troops at the ukrainian border. today we have taken a step toward combating impunity. the resolution passed provides clear directions to safeguard and uncover the facts, however inconvenient the facts may be. we adopted a resolution today but we're not naive.

if russia is not part of the solution it will continue to be part of the problem. for the past six months russia has seized ukrainian territory, all in an effort to preserve influence in ukraine, country that hat long made clear its desire to maintain constructive ties with moscow. russia must recognize that no move on the geopolitical chess board no zero sum game with the west, can offset the pain being felt by the passengers' families worldwide or the pain that ukrainians are experiencing daily as a out of the needless conflict. as we meet, we're seeing initial signs of the separatists allowing greater access to the crash site. today three dutch investigators have accessed the fight. the separatists are attempting to hold this up as proof of their openness and good faith, but let's be clear, this is an extremely complex and time-sensitive crime scene in that context, spigot approach,

letting in a fewaçkñ investigats here, few more there, simply will not cut it. access must be immediate and it period. a spigot or staged managed approach is a form of obstruction. russia can help change this. russia can unequivocally condemn the separatists' inhuman treatment of the bodies at the. so i russia can demand the separatists immediately adopt a cease fire in the area around the crash site as ukraine has done. russia can press the illegal groups to sit down with president pore shane key, who proposed a serious and reasonable peace plan, and instead of continuing to provide weapons to the separatists rich could take back all of the surface to air missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry it has delivered to them. these would not only be important steps toward achieving accountantability, and achieving justice for the victims, they would constitute a long overdue

sign that russia is willing to take steps to end this deadly crisis. thank you. >> sam samantha power, pointing the finger of blame at rich and telling russia they have the power to end the hostility. daniel rose, conducted debris searches in the u.s. navy, with me in the studio. the news that broke this hour is that the black boxes apparently have been found, and have been turned over to malaysian authorities as of 40 minutes ago with don't know that's the case but that's the report. how critical at this point in this investigation would they be? >> it's obviously a good move forward. i still remain generally pessimistic about what information we're getting and when. the hierarchy of things i don't think the black box is at the top of my list, certainly. >> it's not. >> no, by black box, there are two of them.

a flight data recorder and the cvr. the cvr probably gives you more information about what happened leading up to the shootdown, did the flight crew think about deviating, did you hear the actual missile and what happened on the way down. >> what you would you need are physical pieces -- >> the wreckage in my mind would be much more informative, much more important. you'll see evidence of an explosion, whether it's the residue or actual physical dam. you'd be able to identify the source of the missile. so the wreckage is the key piece, and it's of course been on the ground -- >> could they have taken away all the credit -- critical parts of the plan? >> incriminating, certainly, anything is possible. three or four days to not have access to that or only have separatists and the russians have access it to, is at least a cause for concern. >> on a 777, has to be a huge

piece of the plane. fox news confirming the fbi sent two oar three agents to the area over the weekend, and they're on the ground in ukraine now and they're helping the team of investigators what will they be doing and i imagine from the u.s. perspective, we need that. on the ground. >> sure. the investigation needs it for sure, and certainly we have an interest in knowing what the fbi happens, the fbi shows up, whether it's a terrorist attack or need to identify what is the actual source of the explosion of the missile in this case. >> quickly, you consider pessimistic this morning. are you still that way toward the investigation now or not? >> well, overly i would say so. i think these are good moves forward but time will tell how sincere the russias are. >> daniel rose, gate to see you. texas governor rick perry announcing he'll be sending as many,ék as a thousand national guard troops to the border with mexico in an attempt to step up security against illegal

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>> more now on the breaking news another of texas. the governor rick perry announcing he is deploying as many as a thousand national guard troops to help with border security. the area has struggled to deal with a large number of unaccompanied children illegally entering the u.s. over the past several months. >> i will not stand idly by while our citizens are under assault and little children from central america are detained in squalor. >> governor perry add you cannot have national security without border security. casey? >> $12 million a month. that is how much this national understand deployment is going

to cost -- national guard deprime minister is going to cost. that's another big headline out of the press conference that wrapped up in austin, where the governor spoke, talking about his plans to try to secure the border and assist folks down there working the humanitarian crisis. governor perry says the 1,000 troops will act as a force multiplier, not there to assist the federal assets like u.s. border patrol, customs and border protection. instead, they're going to be helping state resources. remember, a couple of weeks ago, governor perry ordered a surge of dps or department of public safety troopers to the border to assist with what is going on down there. so today at this press conference he said this is just an expansion of operation strong safety, the name of the surge they're going to be helping the state officials. that, by the way, costing $1.3 million a week for that, and now we're hearing 12 million a month for this national guard deployment money, he insists

that will be coming from the federal government they will reimburse texas for that. we'll have to wait to see what kind of result this military presence may yield. >> thank you, casey, live in dallas on that. much more on the malaysia airlines plane shot done over ukraine. we'll talk to an analyst in a moment who says the attack may not from be a game-changer after all. why would he say that? you'll hear from him next.

continuing coverage now of the airliner attacked in ukraine. the u.n. security council passing a resolution demanding the rebels open the crash site to investigators and calling for a cease fire in the area. want to bring in michael singh,

former assistant condoleezza rice. hello to you and good day. you do not believe this could even be a game-changer after all this. why would that be? >> well, i wish it were. it's a horrific supreme shows the extent to which the situation in ukraine endangers security of other states. but we haven't seen any real change from russia and vladimir putin in particular in terms of his stance towards this conflictment we have not seen any drawing back of russian support for the separatists and perhaps that shouldn't come as a surprise. this is a russia that has invaded and afflecked -- annexed crimea, supports assad, and so perhaps it shouldn't be surprising this doesn't change his calculus. >> the u.n. security council voted moments ago, unanimous across the bored, even russia voted to open up the site to an

investigation, and agreeing to all the demands in the letter from the security council. some countries care about what the u.n. hases to say. does putin care? >> remember, russia, exercised -- can exercise a veto at the inn security council, and so events there are different for russia and there was reported lay lot of haggling over the details of the resolution. i think more importantly, bill, as your aviation expert said, it's now been several days and there's a high possibility the evidence of crash site has been corrupted or carted away and therefore the investigators who do arrive, when they finally arrive, will have a hard time coming up with hard conclusions, and so the u.s., eu, and others will be forced to rely upon their own intelligence, own information to make judgments. again, the question is, will this cause a change in eu or u.s. policy, which so far has not been as firm as could be against russia. >> you think russia might be able to get away with this, then. >> well, whether they get away

with it or not is based upon the will of the international community. there's no sort of higher court to appeal to. it will come down, are european countries willing to place the security of europe over the commercial interests or energy interests with russia? i think that's still an open question, despite this horrific crime. will this be the game-changer that gets the countries focused on russia. >> holiday is the pret handling this? >> the president has tried to put pressure on russia. we could have had firmer sanctions and a more comprehensive policy to assist ukraine but he has been frustrated by europes refusal to join in. >> he could lead that campaign and the germans would follow him, would they not. >> he could and there's plenty more the united states could do, but certain live we do need to see more from europe and that's going to take a decision by european leaders. >> thank you for you time.

from the washington institute. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] are your joints ready for action?

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>> people around the world have been paying tribute to the victims of the airliner attack in ukraine. mourners placed flowers at the airport in"-i'h amsterdam. this shows the netherlands ambassador to ukraine's placing

flowers. people leaving toys and flowers at the crash site itself. over the weekend folks in malaysia held a candlelight vigil in kuala lampur where the flight was supposed to arrive but never did. >> finally on this day in 1955, president dwight d. eisenhower laid out a so-called open skies plan which would later inspire arms control agreements between the u.s. and soviet union. president eisenhower calling for the u.s. and soviets to exchange maps that reveal the location of every military facility in each other's country. the sovietstnr)x rejected the , calling it a plot for spying but decade later president ronald reagan would use the same principles in the negotiations with the sovietdown -- soviet union, reagan but trust but verify. >> when the news breaks we'll bleak first here at the fox news channel. see you tomorrow morning at

9:00 a.m. eastern time on america's newsroom. until then, i'm bill hemmer in for shepard smith, "your world" with neil cavuto is next. here's neil. >> thank you, bill, and fresh be any safer for them? welcome everybody, i'm neil cavuto. forget where you are flying, worry more about what you are flying over. of the shootdown of the malaysia airline plane last week, growing fears it could happen again because ukraine is not alone when it comes to civil strive. there are 37 places of crisis and someone you know or you could be flying over them any day. wayne simmons on what can be down right now. wayne, scary stuff. scary numbers. >> very scary numbers,