good morning, america. a special edition of "gma" breaking now. >> shot down, not an accident. blown out of the sky. >> disaster in the sky. malaysia flight shot down. vanishing from radar at 33,000 feet. 298 people on board. >> it's a pretty grim sight. >> new details. about the missile that took down the plane. >> this is terrible. >> and who was really behind it. new clues at the crash site. big questions about who has those all-important black boxes. heartbreaking images of destruction. team coverage on this disaster and brand-new footage just coming in. and that other major breaking story overnight. crisis in the middle east. a major ground offensive has

israeli troops pressed into gaza. thousands of soldiers with tanks and armored vehicles as reporters are on the ground on both sides of the conflict. new details coming in at this hour. good morning, america. and we are waking up to these two major stories. the entire world watching as there are breaking new developments on both fronts. >> this is the scene in ukraine this morning. you see the charred wreckage. it's spread over ten miles and here's what's new overnight. the nationalities of 20 of those passengers still have not been identified. so far, none of the victims are americans. we did learn that 3 of the 298 people onboard were infants. >> this is key, no confirmation that the plane's black boxes have been found and who might be

in possession of them. we have full team coverage beginning with abc's terry moran in kiev. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning. this morning, a team of international investigators is on their way to the crash site. their safe passage and their access to that debris field has supposedly been guaranteed by the rebels who control that territory. this is a race against time, aviation experts say, to preserve the credibility and the accuracy of any investigation. this morning in ukraine brought a clearer look at the ghastly scene, the charred remains of malaysia airlines flight 17 and the 298 souls on board. the wreckage scattered across ten miles of countryside in rebel-held eastern ukraine, and this the moment of impact, the huge boeing 777 slamming into the ground sending up plumes of smoke and those white streaks, pieces of the plane raining down.

it was 4:20 p.m. local time. four hours earlier flight 17 took off from amsterdam bound for kuala lumpur in malaysia, carrying enough fuel for the 11 1/2-hour flight then traveling at 33,000 feet crossing over war-torn ukraine, the plane is apparently struck by a surface-to-air missile and it loses contact with ground control some 30 miles from the russian border crashing into rebel-held territory. authorities say, no distress call came from the pilot. our reporter john wendle was on the scene amid the carnage. >> we found part of the tail fuselage. there is a body next to it. it is a very grim scene. that we're seeing here. >> reporter: the bodies rained down from the sky, witnesses said, passports, boarding passes, belongings falling with them, relics of 298 lives including three newborns. as the wreckage smoldered back in the u.s. talk quickly turned to terrorism.

>> shot down, not an accident. blown out of the sky. >> reporter: the question this morning, who fired that missile if that's, in fact, what brought down the plane? ukraine's president blaming pro-russian rebels saying "we're not calling it an accident or a disaster but an act of terrorism," but those pro-russian separatists deny the charge, claiming it was the ukrainian forces who shot down the plane and russian president vladimir putin says the state over whose territory this occurred bears responsibility for this awful tragedy. there were reports that the rebels had recovered the two black boxes from the may la shan airliner, now the rebels say they haven't found those crucial pieces of evidence. it's a murky and fast-developing story. one that has been caught up in the information war that's raging alongside ukraine's civil war. robin and george. >> we'll talk to steve ganyard about that in a minute. but right now, we're going to get more on those key questions that terry talked about.

the unfolding investigation faces a number of daunting challenges. our chief investigative correspondent brian ross here with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, george. new details are expected later today from u.s. intelligence agencies about the who and the what of the suspected attack on the jetliner. so far everything points to a group of russian rebels who nato officials have been warning for the past month have been given some very powerful weapons, weapons they may not fully understand how to use. overnight, the rebels who are in control of the crash scene denied any responsibility for shooting down the plane. with the self-described prime minister of the rebels blaming the ukrainian military saying his group's weapons aren't powerful enough to do so. twice this week, the russian rebels shot down two different kinds of ukrainian military aircraft with their missiles. and now u.s. officials believe the rebels mistakenly hit the malaysian boeing 777 aircraft while trying to target a third military plane on thursday.

ukrainian officials made public a set of intercepted messages they say proves it. according to ukraine, a rebel commander first reported a plane had been shot down 30 minutes after it disappeared from radar but then a short while later as the first videos appeared online, ukraine officials say the now shook up rebel commanders reported they were 100% sure it was a civilian aircraft, not military. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: are there any weapons, one person asks. nothing at all. civilian belongings, medical scraps, towels, toilet paper. then told the wreckage made clear it was a malaysian airliner. another answer, well, then it was bringing spies. why was it flying? despite the conflict there

commercial aircraft had been flying over that area as long as they stayed above 32,000 feet. overnight the entire space has been shut down to commercial craft. >> the state department had been warning against american passenger planes flying in other areas. >> slightly different part. now that entire area over where this took place has been shut down to all commercial aircraft. >> okay, brian ross, thanks very much. >> now u.s. officials say it looks like a surface-to-air missile brought the passenger jet down. a much more complex weapon than a shoulder-fired rocket. and it appears to be russian made. abc's martha raddatz is in washington with more on that side of the story. good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, robin. it took that missile only about 30 seconds from the time it was launched to knocking that airliner out of the sky. it is a sophisticated missile system and the u.s. was able to determine quite quickly through satellites and radars that the plane was shot down. the malaysian airliner was struck by a single missile at an altitude of approximately 33,000 feet, well above the range for shoulder-fired missiles. u.s. surveillance satellites could track the final seconds of

the missile's flight as it struck the aircraft but as yet the u.s. has not determined whether it was fired from ukrainian territory or russian territory. the russian-made anti-aircraft system possibly the sa-11 is a surface-to-air missile system which can reach altitudes up to 45,000 feet. the vehicle mounted system has the ability to launch missiles at four different targets at one time. the ukrainian military has gadflies in their inventory, which russian separatists could easily have gotten when they overtook some military bases earlier this year, and just a few weeks ago, the nato commander said they had seen evidence russia was training russian separatists on how to operate the system. if whoever had shot it down had known how to fully operate the system, they would have been able to determine it was a civilian airliner, not military.

robin. >> they would have. all right, martha, thank you. >> let's get more on this from our aviation consultant steve ganyard. steve, such a complicated investigation. this is a crash site, crime scene in a war zone. >> it sure is, george. i want to pick up on one thing that martha just said there and the idea that back on june 30th, nato intelligence was briefing that the rebels were seen being trained by the russians on the sophisticated tactical mobile, s.a.m.s, almost all can reach up to 45,000, 50,000 feet above where an airliner could fly so why they're not saying that's not a safe altitude is a question that needs to be asked there, because i think there's a real disconnect. >> especially since a plane had gone down earlier in the week. conflicting reports on what has happened with these black boxes. the rebels say they recovered some and talked about having eight different black boxes which is kind of unusual, isn't it?

>> yes, george, there are just two. i'd like to move us away from the black boxes a little bit. we're getting u.s. officials this morning are pretty much confirming that a missile brought this aircraft down and so the black boxes are not going to tell us too much. the shoot-down came down as a real shock. that crew was on autopilot at 33,000 feet, and, bang, the missile hit and that was the end. so, it's not like the black boxes will be a clue in the way they would be in a mishap where there was pilot error or a mechanical failure. the real key here is, get to the site and to look at the forensic evidence on the skin of the aircraft. the u.s. military has the ability to look at the forensic evidence of residue, explosive residue and the warhead and be able to determine from the metal and the residue what kind of missile might have hit that aircraft so i think it's much more important to get to the site, to find the aircraft, rather than search so hard for the black boxes. >> and why it's so important to have an independent investigation as well, because

that residue presumably could tell you whether it was a system more likely to be inside ukrainian territory or over in russian territory. >> exactly. it's just like a crime scene investigation. you don't want anybody to touch it. you want it pristine. you don't want anything moved. you have to preserve the evidence in the way that it appears when the aircraft came down or it could be contaminated and the improper conclusions could be drawn. >> okay, steve ganyard. thanks very much. now to lara. who has information about some of the people that were on that plane. lara. >> robin, we do. in all 298 people were on board flight 17. they were from at least nine countries and as we mentioned three of them were infants and there were 15 crew members. however, the nationalities of 20 passengers are still not confirmed this morning leaving the possibility that some might be american. this morning, grief-stricken families gathering at airports in amsterdam and kuala lumpur awaiting confirmation about the victims of flight mh17 and we've learned right before takeoff one

of the pilots sent a text saying he would be home shortly to see her and his two children. among the victims we know of this morning, the gunawan family, relatives of an abc news employee, who were headed to the philippines on vacation. he was an employee of malaysia airlines, his wife irene and two children, daryl and cheryl with were him, and karlijn kaiser who was going on vacation with her boyfriend. >> i'm in disbelief and expecting, you know, karlijn to pop up on facebook and tell everybody she is okay. >> reporter: also on the flight, as many as 108 aids activist, researchers and health workers heading to a major conference in melbourne, australia. >> this incredibly sad and sensitive time the ias sends condolences to the loved ones. >> reporter: one dutch passenger posted this chilling picture right before takeoff. it appears to be the doomed plane with the caption "should it disappear, this is what it

looks like" he and his girlfriend now among the dead. sara said her brother and a friend were bumped from the flight at the last minute. two of their friends were not. >> i felt bad for feeling good that my family hadn't been ruined and that my brother was alive. >> reporter: so difficult. one australian family has been affected by both tragedies. irene and george lost their son rodney on flight 370 that disappeared in march and now their stepgranddaughter and husband were killed on mh17. >> so sad. thanks very much. we'll turn to that other major story we're covering this morning. israeli troops launched a major ground offensive against hamas, preparing for a significant expansion and abc's alex marquardt is on the ground in gaza with the latest. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning, george. thousands of israeli troops poured into the gaza strip overnight, backed by tanks on the ground and planes in the sky.

israel says the goal is not to occupy gaza or to destroy hamas but to significantly weaken the group and stop the rocket fire into israel. [ sirens ] >> reporter: from land, sea and air, israel's punishing bombardment of gaza overnight lit up the dark sky. then the order was given to launch the ground operation. columns of israeli tanks and troops moving into the gaza strip on the order of the prime minister. their primary mission, to destroy the huge network of tunnels that hamas uses to carry out attacks on israel. tunnels that israel's relentless air campaign over the past ten days hasn't been able to take out. prime minister netanyahu now says he's ready to significantly expand the ground operation to deal harsh blows to hamas and their arsenal. today, we saw the devastating aftermath of israel's bombing this morning. the family here tells us they came to this house evacuating from another area thinking it

would be safer. they were taking refuge right here during the bombing when a tank shell burst through the wall killing three including two children. this man lost his brother and son. he told me that he wants no cease-fire. that hamas should keep firing rockets. those killed in this house and elsewhere overnight raised the death toll to more than 260 palestinians including almost 60 children. on the israeli side, two have now died. one israeli soldier killed in the overnight operation. for now there is relative quiet here in gaza. i was just out walking around. there are some people in the streets doing some shopping but they know that this calm likely won't last. robin, george. >> okay, alex, thanks very much. now let's go to amy with the other top stories. good morning. we begin with breaking news from the pacific northwest. an entire town in central washington forced to evacuate as several wildfires rage out of control burning more than 28 square miles.

the local sheriff telling abc news houses are on fire throughout the small city there and even patients at a nearby hospital were forced to flee. more than three dozen homes and a church have burned so far. also this scene from washington, a massive highway pileup. 24 cars and trucks involved. the drivers blindsided by smoke from nearby fires. and this morning, federal express is accused of drug trafficking. the justice department says the shipping company knowingly delivered prescription drugs from illegal online pharmacies over a ten-year period. the company could face billions in fines. it denies the charges. and health officials in florida have confirmed the first two cases of a new mosquito-borne virus acquired in the united states. chikungunya is a painful and infectious disease first reported in the caribbean and authorities are urging people to do everything possible to prevent mosquito bites.

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reading the signs so you walk into whatever lane you want to, right? >> wouldn't it be nice. >> i like the concept. >> i kind of wish we didn't need it but i get the point. thank you, amy. let's go over to ginger. you have more on the fires out west. >> yeah, and i can set up the problem for you and show it to you. it's like two gears working together. and i'll explain. a low pressure system goes counterclockwise and funnels air here. high pressure clockwise so they come together and the air funnels into the wildfire areas making it very erratic and tough to get in there. not great today. winds gusting to 35 miles per hour. some cooler air will eventually get in. the other huge story flash flooding this morning around el paso and we'll see lots of rain throughout the gulf coast throughout the weekend. that's the forecast for now. but to your local forecast.

>> a gray start to the morning with fog and patchy drizzle making way for increased clouds later today. it will be a degree or two warmer and we will see temperatures reading 84 degrees inant rock and cooler around the bay at 71 expected in oakland and 66 at half moon bay with the cloud cover remaining for the duration of the afternoon. lows increasing clouds again, upper 50's to lower 60's and a warm-up this weekend and high pressure is visiting up w >> and just a reminder for anyone getting heavy rains it really only takes two feet of water to move your car. that's something to keep in the back of your mind. >> thank you. coming up on "gma," new information coming in about what happened to that malaysian

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broadway and screen legend elaine stritch. six decades in showbiz, no one quite like her and the tributes just continue to pour in this morning. >> she was truly something else. >> no question about that. but first in this half hour the latest on our top story, the passenger jet shot down over ukraine. that area is a large debris field stretching over ten miles. john wendle is a freelance reporter for abc news. he's there on the scene in ukraine and i spoke to him on the phone just a few moments ago. john, i know you're back there today. you were also there yesterday shortly after all of this happened. how are the two scenes different from day to day? >> reporter: i'm actually -- the rain is coming down pretty good and because of separatists' checkposts and the condition of the roads we haven't been able to reach the main crash site, but we're about 12 kilometers away right now, and we just stumbled upon a -- it looks like the inside of a -- one of the

baggage containers that they would put inside of the aircraft. so i mean to find that out here, there are no rebels out here. there's no ukrainian emergency services. it -- you can actually see a trail of debris across this mown wheat field right now. it's -- i mean, to see this way out here in the middle of nowhere really is pretty shocking. >> i can only imagine and so you're saying there appears to be no one in charge of anything right now. >> reporter: no, there's a guy from a local -- from a village nearby kind of walking on the edge of this wheat field. i haven't heard anybody report about this, you know, so i think that this really shows that it's going to take quite some time for them to gather together the pieces of wreckage. i do know that the rebels are -- have spent the entire day out in the fields around the main wreckage site, around the main crash site looking for bodies,

so this is going to take some time. particularly considering the political and security situation right now. >> and it's of great concern that this site is not secure at all because as you're describing the materials, the things that you are seeing from the plane, this is key information. this is key evidence to prove what exactly did happen and where that missile was fired. >> well, i'm not sure if it would be key evidence but it would definitely point to a path and you can actually hear artillery away in the background. so, you know, this is a very difficult circumstance right now to investigate what happened. i do know that they're looking in washington and in moscow at the various evidence but here on the ground, it's just going to take a lot of people and a lot of time trying to hunt down the different parts of the story. >> again, you were one of the first on the scene there yesterday, right?

>> reporter: yeah. >> and exactly what did you see then? >> reporter: well, i arrived around 10:00, 10:30 last night and there was still smoke and fire going pretty good and lots of guys -- lots of the armed rebels were along a small kind of country lane with small flashlights and that sort of thing. trying to find bodies in the long grass on either side of the road. there's -- on one side, there's a wheat field and, you know, it's just -- i'm sorry to say it's just a surreal scene to be rolling through this peaceful countryside and then to come upon something like that was just utterly shocking. even, even with all of the violence unfolding here in this region of ukraine, it was still

shocking. >> we can only imagine, only imagine what you are seeing right now. john wendle, thank you very much for your report. >> reporter: thank you. >> i remember when you were talking to steve ganyard earlier and how critical it is to get to that scene and to be able to pick up the residue and that would be able to determine exactly what happened because the black boxes not so much. >> not so much and need an independent investigation. you know, when we first heard the malaysia airlines lost another plane, we thought, it just couldn't be after the loss of flight 370. david kerley is at los angeles international airport with more on that strange and sad coincidence. good morning, david. >> reporter: there's one financial analyst this morning is questioning whether or not the malaysia airlines brand can even survive after these two separate disasters in such a short period of time. it's the second time in four months malaysia airlines is trying to counsel grieving

relatives and now more than 500 passengers. it crashed in pieces in eastern ukraine. the other mh370 still missing believed to be somewhere at the bottom of the indian ocean, a double disaster just months apart. >> with flight 17 at least they know how it ended up and what happened to their family members. >> reporter: as with other carriers, malaysia says it will now find alternate routes around ukraine and malaysia also confirmed there was no distress call and said the airspace was not restricted at the time by international authorities who told airlines they would be safe above 32,000 feet. but some of those vehicle carried missiles can travel twice as high as the malaysian 777 was flying making it a sitting duck with no warning systems, no way to defend itself. a terrifying prospect for other flights. the same territory as the routes for spots like bali, thailand and parts of eastern europe. look at this, after the loss of flight 17, air

carriers started flying around the area. puts a bit of a new spin on the fact that the safest way to travel is in an airplane leaving some passengers wondering. >> you can't live your life in a cave so you go about your business and do what you're going to do. >> it's really, really scary because, yeah, we've seen that it's a safe trip but there is this everywhere. >> reporter: years ago the u.s. government asked to test an antimis-sill system, not against the big vehicle-borne systems but shoulder-launched system and deemed it was too expensive for the threat we face and george and robin, i should mention fbi and ntsb investigators ready to go and help. they have not left yet. >> all right. thank you, david. i was there at l.a.x. just a few hours ago and, boy, everyone was talking about this and just -- even though, you know, just flying back to new york and not going in that area but still there was just that sense of -- >> absolutely. no question. >> but the gentleman is right you can't live your life in a cave.

>> let's go to ginger now. what do you have? this morning dallas is where we start because they have had a record low this morning. that has made it to dallas. let's look at the sky camera there from wfaa, our favorite affiliate in texas. check that out, wow. looking like a cloudy sky. they may actually see a record maximum in the cool department but then things will warm up as will so many other folks including denver, mid-80s there as we start into the 90s you go, kans here at home, temperatures are going to be about a degree or two warmer today with partly cloudy conditions for most of us in the 80s in the inland areas. overnight lows, increasing clouds with the upper 50s, lower 60s. >> so cool, comfortable, less humid, a really nice weekend ahead especially here in the east coast for the first half at least. >> looking forward to that. >> thanks, ginger. and we're going to stay on top of all this breaking news

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we're back now at 7:42 with a dramatic story of two sisters caught up in the severe weather

while paddleboarding, adrift at sea for eight hours desperately hanging on in the blistering sun, and abc's mara schiavocampo has that story for us. >> reporter: it started out as a relaxing day on the water. summer and cayci underwood setting out tuesday, but soon a violent storm would turn them into drifters lost at sea for eight harrowing hours. >> the current got really bad and then we thought this is picking up and there's no way we're going to make it back. >> reporter: the 21 and 27-year-old started out off george's tybee island when they say the wind picked up and the water became choppy knocking them off their boards. >> the choppiness turned into waves, very big waves. >> reporter: that's when it went from bad to worse. at the peak of the storm, the sisters became separated. >> with the current the way it was, you know, it was just pushing us further and further apart. >> reporter: thankfully the two eventually found each other but their saga was far from over. for the next eight hours the badly wounded pair would struggle to survive.

their own paddleboards now rubbing up and burning their skin with every wave and they say they saw several shrimping boats but nobody saw them. >> and we just came to realize there was nothing we could do. >> reporter: a sink or swim decision. the two decided they'd be better off losing their paddleboards and trying to swim back to shore even though they weren't certain where shore was. >> we couldn't see any sight of land or anything. >> reporter: miraculously the two eventually made it back to dry land. it turns out they had drifted eight miles from their starting point all the way to hilton head, south carolina. >> there were people on the shore but we ended up swimming all the way to them. >> reporter: the sisters were treated for shock and exhaustion and they say their burns still sting but their bond, they say, grew even stronger. >> nobody can compete with the bond that we have now and we've literally fought for our lives together. >> reporter: and it was actually the very first time those sisters had tried paddleboarding.

one of them was hospitalized for that chafing from the board and both are at home and say they are completely done with paddleboarding understandably and both were wearing life jackets so certainly that helped in their survival. >> one and done. >> yeah. >> thanks for bringing that to us. appreciate it. coming up, the new bug spray that promises to protect you from mosquitoes without the chemical deet. we put it to the test. >> and we're celebrating the life of elaine stritch. don't go anywhere. ♪ led to the one jobhing you always wanted. at university of phoenix, we believe every education- not just ours- should be built around the career that you want. imagine that.

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♪ ♪ i've been through bali and windsor and i'm here ♪ i mean, you just -- you have to smile when you look at her, the great elaine stritch with her signature song "i'm still here" and we are celebrating the life of that showbiz legend this morning. for decades she was a one-of-a-kind force on broadway and tonight here in new york marquee lights at all the theaters will be dimmed in her honor. abc's chris connelly has a look at the life of this spectacular and sassy star. ♪ >> jackie. >> reporter: tv viewers may have known elaine stritch best for her spectacular turns on "30 rock" playing alec baldwin's indomitable mother.

>> i recall this one time he cried and cried. it was more like wailing. it was awful. >> she's referring to my birth. >> reporter: the incomparable stritch spent over 60 years of her life on screen in such films as woody allen's "september" and especially on the broadway stage dripping with delicious cynicism. ♪ here's to the girls who stay smart ♪ >> reporter: her performance of "the ladies who lunch" from stephen sondheim's company became a theatrical landmark. ♪ let's hear it for the ladies that lunch ♪ ♪ everybody rise >> reporter: in the '80s she turned up on "the cosby show" as a no-nonsense teacher. >> let me ask you something, did you talk to mrs. huxtable before you gave rudy all this splendid advice? >> no. >> she's out of town, isn't she? >> reporter: elaine stritch died thursday at the age of 89. so many paying their respects on twitter. and as alec baldwin put it, "i'm

sure that even god is a bit nervous right now." for "good morning america," chris connelly, abc news, los angeles. >> and some more great tweets. here's lena dunham. she tweeted "here's to the lady who lunched. elaine stritch, we love you. may your heaven be a booze-soaked, no-pants solo show at the carlyle. thank you." liza minnelli said "elaine was a magnificent woman in every sense of the word." we'll save you money on your air-conditioning bill and rock in central park. so stay with us. nd rock in central park. so stay with us.

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good morning. i'm kristen sze. developing news. investigators are combing the crash site in eastern ukraine where a malaysia airlines yet jet went down killing all 298 people on board. about 100 of the passengers were heading to an aids conference in australia. among them a pioneer in aids research. leyla gulen checking out our forecast. >> and we have a thicker marine layer this morning and slightly warmer temperatures. we're going to be in the mid-70s around the bay, 60s along the coast, but reaching the upper 70s to low to mid-80s in our inland areas. overnight lows increasing clouds, 50s and 60s.

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>> announcer: from abc news live in times square, this is "good morning america." and this friday morning we're covering two major breaking news stories beginning, of course, with that disaster in the sky, the latest from the site where the plane went down and what we are learning just ahead and the latest also from the middle east. >> you know, whenever we have disasters like this, we want to talk a little about how parents can talk to their kids about all these graphic images we're seeing not only on television but also on social media so we have a parenting experiment here this morning with some very good advice. then we're going to turn our attention to summer and pesky mosquitoes. this morning we're putting a new bug spray to the test that promises to protect you without the potentially dangerous chemical deet. we'll see how well it works.

as the temperatures rise, so do our energy billsm and we'll show you how to cut the cost of running your ac in half in some cases. and we do have a party in the park this morning. look at all those people out there. grammy winning producer and deejay zedd is here live for our concert in the park. >> it's just like when we had afrojack. there's something when these deejays are just a hit and it's a full-on dance party out there in the park. so let's get right to that disaster in the air, breaking new details this morning on the downing of malaysia air flight 17. all 298 people as you know on we're going to find out were killed. we'll go back to abc's terry moran in kiev and he has the very latest for us. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, robin. fast-breaking developments on this story this morning. the team of international investigators en route to the crash scene. there are now questions about whether the rebels who control that scene will allow them access to it and the rebels are changing their story. yesterday they said they had the

black boxes, they'd found those. crucial pieces of evidence. now they're saying they don't know where they are. the wreckage scattered across ten miles of countryside in rebel-held eastern ukraine and this, the moment of impact, the huge boeing 777 slamming into the ground sending up plumes of smoke and those white streak, pieces of the plane raining down. it was 4:20 p.m. local time. traveling at 33,000 feet crossing over war-torn ukraine, the plane is apparently struck by a surface-to-air missile. it loses contact with ground control some 30 miles from the russian border crashing into rebel-held territory. authorities say no distress call came from the pilot. our reporter john wendle was on the scene amid the carnage. >> we found part of the tail fuselage. there is a body next to it. it's a very grim scene that we're seeing here. >> reporter: the bodies rained down from the sky, witnesses said.

passports, boarding passes, belongings falling with them. relics of 298 lives including three newborns. as the wreckage smoldered, back in the u.s. talk quickly turned to terrorism. >> shot down, not an accident. blown out of the sky. >> reporter: the question this morning, who fired that missile? if that's what, in fact, brought down the plane. the ukrainian president has pointed the finger directly at the separatists. he's saying this is not a disaster or an accident, it's an act of terrorism. but those rebels are saying it was ukrainian forces who shot down the plane, and the russian president, vladimir putin, is saying that the ukrainian government is responsible. this atrocity being sucked into the war of words that is raging here alongside the civil war in ukraine. robin. >> still becomes a very fluid situation, this new information continuing to come in. we turn to that other major story we're following this morning. israel launching a ground offensive into gaza claiming it

has destroyed dozens of hamas targets and warning this is just the beginning. abc's alex marquardt is in gaza city with the latest. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning, george. israel says thousands of troops have participated in the ground incursion, which so far has been limited to the outer edges of gaza. but israel's prime minister this morning warned that he may soon significantly expand the operation. a bright glow lit up israel as israel pummeled the strip overnight, then the order was given for the ground incursion. columns of tanks and troops moving into gaza just before midnight. their primary mission, to destroy hamas' sophisticated network of tunnels used to carry out attacks on israel that the aerial campaign couldn't find. so far at least five tunnels have been uncovered, but now israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered his forces to be ready to broaden the ground operation. today, we visited a family whose home was hit this morning amid

some of the heaviest israeli bombing yet. the family here tells us they came to this house evacuating from another area thinking it would be safer. they were taking refuge right here during the bombing when a tank shell burst through the wall killing three including two children. since israel launched the ground operation, the death toll has climbed past 260 palestinians including almost 60 children. on the israeli side, two have now died. one israeli soldier killed overnight. israel's military said just a short time ago that 17 militants have been killed in this operation so far and more than 13 captured. any talk of a cease-fire for now has evaporated. we can hear incoming israeli fire, outgoing rockets towards israel. hamas saying israel will pay a heavy price. george. >> alex, thanks very much. let's go to amy with today's other top stories. >> george, everyone. we have more now on the state of emergency in washington. an entire town forced to flee as

wildfires consume more homes in the central part of that state. dozens of buildings up in flames, the sheriff in the small city of poteras telling us that fire is everywhere, even a hospital was forced to evacuate. >> it really looked like, you know, the cauldron of hell. you could see flames everywhere you looked. >> reporter: at least 28 square miles have burned so far. also, breaking overnight a massive fire at this former green giant food plant across the u.s. border near windsor, ontario. the fire has been burning since 2:00 a.m. no word yet on injuries or the cause. on wall street, the unrest in ukraine and israel has been hurting stocks, and overnight oil prices climbed higher approaching $104 per barrel. the big concern, that tensions with russia could disrupt global fuel supplies. well, a stash of gold has been recovered from a shipwreck off south carolina. the gold bars and coins are worth millions of dollars. the ship went down during a hurricane back in 1857. the ownership of that wreck has

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and welcome back to "gma." we've been covering the plane crash all morning long, and we know that means a lot of kids will be exposed to difficult images on social media so we wanted to bring in in dr. robyn silverman for guidance and let's start out with older kids, especially. we can turn off the tv but they're on twitter and facebook. what do you do about it? >> right, to think that we can turn off the tv and the kids are not going to see it means we're in the dark. so make sure your teen knows if you're curious and you're seeking out the images or you see images that are disturbing or concerning, please come to me. understand that when you come to me, we can sit down and talk about it. i can answer questions and we can also go to credible news stations and find out what's really happening. >> so that's with the older set but i keep thinking at your sweet girl harper who is here. george's daughter has been in the studio with all morning long and sometimes she comes from time to time and think about that age group.

how do you talk to them? >> i have a 4-year-old and 5-year-old so that's really poignant for me, as well. young children, we need to think of three things. the first is the words we choose. they need to be age appropriate. they need to be short and sweet and we need to answer the questions. make sure you're underscoring safety. number two, your voice. make sure it's calm. kids are going to react to your reaction, so make sure that you're not echoing the emotion of the story in the same way you would with a friend and then, finally, be there for them. understand that these kids need to know that after the conversation closes, the door remains open for future conversations. >> and only give them as much information as they want. >> exactly. >> answer the questions asked and keep moving. >> exactly. you're not talking to a friend. you're talking to a young child. >> it's so hard to explain it. i mean, there is no explanation that a 9-year-old, i think of my daughter kate or even a 12-year-old like my son can wrap their heads around. i know you're telling us what to do. it's how to find the right words is what causes me anxiety.

>> right, exactly, and some children are going to be really anxious and understand that if they're extremely anxious, make sure to bring those words down, answer the questions just as they ask them. yes, the plane went down. yes, there are people who died. yes, we are doing everything we can, the adults who are in charge, are doing everything they can to make sure that they address the problem. >> what about limiting social media, just keeping them off their devices because there are so many other images that show up that we would never want them to see. >> you know your child best. so if you know your child is prone to those nightmares, you know your child gets extremely anxious, then tell them, this is for your own good but understand it's very hard to limit media. so the best thing is -- >> oh, i know. you don't have to tell me that. >> the best thing is to make sure they're media savvy and you are there for them to help them understand what's really going on. >> final thing here, robyn, about flying. i was at l.a.x. it just seems

like a couple of hours ago getting back here. there were some anxious parents with their children. what do you say if your child is anxious now about flying? >> right, they need to know that this kind of incident is extremely rare, that this is not the typical and that everybody is doing what they can to keep everyone as safe as possible. if your child needs more information, show them how planes work, have them talk to a pilot friend. understand that you are there for them, you love them and everybody is doing what they can to make sure those children are safe. >> good advice there. >> great advice. thank you, robyn. >> thank you. >> now let's go out to ginger in central park with the weather. >> a big tone shift. i do want to bring you right into one of the most energetic crowds i have ever seen. look at this thing. i'm right here. you can see me. they've got their hands up, and i'm telling you they were listening to zedd, and this is only the beginning, my friends. let's go ahead and get to the forecast, though, because we do need to share with you a couple of pretty serious headlines including those wildfires and not a whole lot of relief in the

way of weather. it's still going to be very gusty. that's from washington state. remember, there are dozens of large wildfires burning throughout the west and in the southwest and you can see >> a gray start to the morning with fog and patchy drizzle making way for increased clouds later today. it will be a degree or two warmer and we will see temperatures reading 84 degrees inant rock and cooler around the bay at 71 expected in oakland and 66 at half moon bay with the cloud cover remaining for the duration of the afternoon. lows increasing clouds again, upper 50's to lower 60's and a warm-up this weekend and high pressure is visiting up with >> you can hear >> you can hear them. they want zedd and we are all about to get zedd on "gma" coming up. but for now back to the studio.

>> all right, ginger. huge crowd out there. but right we're going to take you to a new alternative to protecting yourself from pesky mosquitoes this summer. if you're worried about deet, that new type of repellant that claims to save you from those itchy bites without using the potentially harmful chemical, and our becky worley put it to the test. >> reporter: summer, sun, skeeters, the fight against biting bugs has often meant spraying yourself with chemicals, specifically deet. >> people have been using deet for years, and the reason why they use it is because it works. >> reporter: but in a recent "consumer reports" article they warn about sprays with more than 30% deet. >> you want to look for products that contain 15% to 30% deet. the lower the better. >> reporter: and they offer up another type of repellant. a synthetic compound called picaridin. >> pi cardin's active ingredient is related to molecules

found in plants of the pepper family. >> reporter: to see how the different repellants work, scott caroll, an entomologist at the university of california-davis prepares a mosquito box for me. >> okay, i'm going in. first i put my arm in the box with mosquitoes who haven't eaten in 18 hours and i'm wearing no repellant. >> 19, 20. ten seconds. can i stop? over 30 mosquitoes landed on me. next dr. caroll puts a deet spray on me and here goes. oh, they're interested. but they're not landing. well, i can feel them touching me and then they go away. not one bite with deet. now for the picaridin spray. one bite, one lurker. that girl is chowing. she's staying there for the long haul. >> uh-huh, and the second one is biting too. >> oh, man. >> reporter: in ten minutes i receive two bites wearing the picaridin spray.

>> so that would be a very low percentage, 1% biting you. >> reporter: testing reported the picaridin spray was effective for seven hours, just an hour less than the deet sprays. and picaridin got much better results than true botanicals so if you're trying to wave off those pesky skeeters without deet, picaridin may be your best bet. for "good morning america," becky worley, abc news, davis, california. >> i'm itchy now. >> i know. >> i can't believe she did that. >> i know. >> thank you, becky, for taking one for the team. all right, now to a beauty mode sure to bring back your brows. people who have been a bit overzealous when plucking eyebrows are turning to transplants to get their natural look back. abc's abbie boudreau checks it out. >> reporter: bold brows are back. that classic audrey hepburn look now framing the faces of a-listers like jennifer connelly, mary-kate and it model carla delovene.

but after years of overplucking, getting those beautiful brows can be nearly impossible. that's why more women are turning to eyebrow transplants. ashley wilkins began plucking when she was just 12 years old. >> then they never grew back and the more i would pluck and then i would try to grow them out and all i would get was a few stray hairs. >> reporter: same story for grace lee who overplucked and even shaved her brows for years. did it affect your confidence? >> oh, definitely. i just didn't feel confident when i went outside. i always needed to like draw my eyebrows which took about 15, 20 minutes. >> reporter: both women turning to dr. marc dauer in los angeles to transform their eyebrows with transplants. >> some people just overpluck their eyebrows, and if you overpluck them, they may not grow back. another cause is just genetically weak eyebrows. >> reporter: it's a six to eight-hour procedure where a strip of your own scalp is transferred one follicle at a time to create a new set of eyebrows. >> we create the desired shape of the eyebrows. i use a needle half a

millimeter in diameter. >> reporter: these are the dramatic before and after photos for ashley and grace. both women now with the eyebrows they've always wanted. >> it just looks beautiful like it just really boosts my confidence level. >> reporter: the procedure costs upwards of $7,000, and dr. dauer says it can take about a year to get your full results. no more plucking. >> no more plucking. >> i hope that anyone out there who is looking to have the transplants done just thinks that it's a great decision and just moves forward with it because they'll never look back. >> reporter: for "good morning america," abbie boudreau, abc news, los angeles. >> i went from doing this, now going, ow, ow. >> covering the whole body. >> painful. we're going to switch gears then. >> i like that. >> brace for those big jumps in energy bills when summer temperatures start to rise and the average american family spends about $400 to keep their house cool between june and august but now there are some new gadgets that can help bring the bills down. abc's linzie janis has the story. >> reporter: becky torres and

her san antonio family are trying to beat the heat at home. you use your air conditioner a lot i'm guessing. >> yes, i do. >> reporter: they spend a hefty $130 every month to keep cool. but thanks to a new and free gadget from her local energy company, that's about to change. >> i'm excited. i can't wait to start saving money. >> reporter: this thinkeco smart ac kit connects to your air-conditioning unit to make it smarter and save you money allowing you to control your ac from your smartphone even when you're away from home and forget to turn it up or off. >> turn off? >> yes. >> reporter: and watch. within seconds. poof. >> awesome. >> it's off. >> so it's completely free and it's going to save you money. >> and it was easy. >> reporter: but why give these devices away for free? during peak times the energy company can remotely raise the temperature on your ac by up to 3 degrees helping them manage demand and prevent blackouts. and if you don't like it, you have the ability to override it.

patrick, hello. i'm linzie. patrick has been using the gadget on an ac unit in his bedroom as well as another system called nest that lets him control his central air. >> we'll do over a thousand dollars this year in savings. >> reporter: you can save too. utility providers in new york and baltimore are also offering free smart ac kits and direct energy is offering rebates on the nest thermostat in ohio and illinois with new jersey, new york and pennsylvania to come. in all, the torreses will beat the heat and save $250 this year. for "good morning america," linzie janis, abc news, new york. >> that's some good stuff there. >> yeah, that's a great idea. big party in the park coming up. zedd is out there, so is ginger zee. >> oh, we are here and we are pumped, are we not, my friends? zedd. if you haven't heard the name, you've absolutely heard the song. what song are you most excited to hear?

>> "clarity," of course. >> "clarity," come on and, yes, he's going to play "clarity." let's look at that crowd. that big, big crowd. wow. there are people of all ages here. this stuff is so hot, electronic music has grown. you guys mentioned it before. these are the most loyal and excited fans i have seen, yes, this summer. so many coming at 3:00 a.m. you know you'll see more of the fans and, of course, a whole lot more of zedd all of it coming up on "gma" very soon here so please don't go anywhere. ♪ are you gonna stay the night oh oh oh ♪

good morning. i'm kristen sze. at the bottom of the hour, president obama will be addressing the nation on the crash of malaysian arable s flight 17. we will interrupt regular programming to go live to washington, d.c. 181 bodies have been located at the crash site so far. the nationalities of four people are still unverified. still no americans identified as passiers as of yet. there were 298 people on board, including 15 crew members. everyone was killed. an update on your morning commute. leyla gulen, how does it look? >> very busy in santa rosa making that drive northbound along 101. it was a sigalert that is canceled, injuries involved here, northbound side. look at this, we have single digits, 8 miles per hour as you approach the scene of the accident. we also have this crash

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increased onshore flow and a deepening marine layer is going to bring increased clouds for much of the bay area. we will see temperatures rise just a little bit with the highest temperatures in the inland valleys. our overnight lows increasing clouds with temperatures sliding in the upper 50s to lower 60s

and mild. accuweather seven-day forecast e shows a little bit of a warm-up this weekend but high pressure comes on wednesday. >> one, two, three. ♪ >> check out that crowd. central park going wild this morning for deejay and producer zedd. >> he's a grammy winner and, boy, does he have some faithful followers that are out there. they're hearing him live. let's go to ginger who is right there in the park with us. ging? >> aside from jaws the crowd and zedd on the way, we've got some fashion to talk about. you heard of fashionistas. now you're about to hear from a refashionista. jillian owens finds things at thrift stores and restyles them turnsing frumpy into fabulous. some of the befores and after. i have an after under the jacket

but first abc's mara schiavocampo shows us how it's all done. ♪ >> reporter: jillian owens gives old frocks new life. this 32-year-old fashion blogger doesn't recycle them, she refashions them. sewing, searching, coloring and clipping transforming less than lovely look into custom creations. why are you committing to saving ugly clothes? >> because, well, i kind of have a thing for how unwanted they are. nobody is going to wear these again. there's no good future for them unless i intervene. >> reporter: these are a few of them transforming this pink getup into a trendy top and this frumpy blue number into a chic supple ensemble. >> i would guess everything in my closet just about is refashioned. i would say at least 95%. >> reporter: owens started refashioning to save some bucks. nothing here costs more than a dollar. >> not a thing. >> reporter: a hobby anyone can pick up even if you don't know how to sew. >> this is an easy one.

>> reporter: perfect for me. a few snips and voila. this is amazing. you have made kind of a corset back. this ultimate thrifter fines all of her pieces at the goodwill outlet. you go here once or twice a week. >> yeah. >> reporter: her tips look for super cheap clothes, the ugliest pieces you can find and go up a few sizes from what you normally wear. today we're looking for two frumpy frocks to transform. this has got to be a winner. this is very, very ugly. a refashionista up to the challenge. >> $1.29 for two pieces. time to get to work. >> all right. let's go. >> reporter: for "good morning america," mara schiavocampo, abc news, columbia, south carolina. >> and we are so elated to have jillian owens here with us with some of the afters but we wanted to remind everybody what the befores looked like. this is one of the sparkly top. >> we have this awesome no not '80s, '90s sparkly mom top

and this is what she turned it into. >> we took the neckline from the original top, pulled it down. took in the sides, used a sleeve to make a little off the shoulder thing so now we have a cute cocktail dress which is probably what i'll be wearing tonight but over here we have something else that's also exciting. >> that took me about 40 minutes tops, yeah. >> that easy. here, this brown and white anything -- >> the print was bad and holes in the side. just kind of blah -- >> what? >> i took it in. i took the fabric that i took in, added it to the bottom, patched the holes with other parts. threw on a belt, dyed it a nice purply fuchsia color and nice to go for a nice fun day. >> something that people don't think about, the dye. >> it's wonderful. it transforms it, absolutely. >> as long as you know your colors. i'm sure i would ruin it. you did not ruin this. i have the after under this jacket but let's go ahead and take a look at what this thing looked like before. the picture coming up.

i'm sure. it's this color. you'll see it. >> i believe in it. >> i don't know that i see it. there it is. she held it up earlier. i don't know what you'd call that dress but let me take my jacket off. >> sort of an '80s teacher frock. >> you made it into a fully functioning blouse. >> took off the sleeves, took it in. gave it a new hem. replaced the buttons with some fun little buttons and made a sash for the waist. >> by the way, jillian did this without knowing what my size was so -- >> that was a little scare are. i eyeballed it. >> so great, anybody that can find tips where do they find you. >> refashionista.net is my blog where a transform thrift store atrocities into something awesome. >> thank you so much, jillian. thanks for inspiring us because we should not use more than we need. go to goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! to hear more of her stories and refashionista tips but the final check of the weather. can you do anything like

refashionista'ing weather? >> it's gorgeous here. >> we don't have to do it here with this beautiful crowd under the sunshine but we do not have the same effect down along the gulf coast. the weather forecast and rain showers, flash flooding that's happened throughout texas, well, that now moving to the east throughout the weekend. you see those pockets of yellow that's going to go 3 to 4 inches, some locally 5 and i want to give you an idea what's happening coast to coast, yes, very nice in the northeast. and we are loving it because, hey, guy, guess who is coming up? zedd. yeah. that's the big picture. here at home, temperatures are going to be about a degree or two warmer today with partly cloudy conditions for most of us in the 80s in the inland areas. overnight lows, increasing clouds with the upper 50s, lower 60s. my accuweather >> all this weather brought to you by elmer's school glue and this is a dancer, right?

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on yahoo! and tell us about your favorite place in america and who know, we might just drop in and visit you there. ♪ if our love's insanity why are you my clarity ♪ ♪ >> welcome back. it is our biggest crowd yet here in central park. and deejay zedd with lara and i. >> this guy is so talented. not only a killer deejay but a producer. he is a songwriter. i don't need to tell you that. here thousand to perform, though, the title track from his debut album, "clarity," zedd will be joined by swedish singing sensation powerhouse miriam bryant. let's hear it for "clarity." ♪ ♪ high dive into frozen waves

where the past comes back to life ♪ ♪ it was worth it every time ♪ fight fear for the selfish pain it was worth it every time ♪ ♪ hold still right before we crash 'cause we both know how this ends ♪ ♪ a clock ticks till it breaks your glass and i drown in you again ♪ ♪ you are the piece of me i wish i didn't need chasing relentlessly still fight and i don't know why ♪ ♪ if our love is tragedy why are you my remedy ♪ ♪ if our love's insanity why are you my clarity ♪ ♪ hey-ay hey-ay-ay

♪ hey-ay hey-ay-ay hey-ay hey ay-ay hey-ay hey ♪ ♪ hey-ay hey-ay-ay ♪ hey-ay hey-ay-ay hey-ay hey ay-ay hey-ay hey ♪ ♪ if our love is tragedy why are you my remedy if our love's insanity why are you my clarity ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ walk on through a red parade and refuse to make amends it cuts deep through our ground ♪ ♪ and makes us forget all common

sense don't speak as i try to leave 'cause we both know what we'll choose ♪ ♪ if you pull then i'll push too deep and i'll fall right back to you ♪ ♪ 'cause you are the piece of me i wish i didn't need chasing relentlessly still fight and i don't know why ♪ ♪ if our love is tragedy why are you my remedy if our love's insanity why are you my clarity ♪ ♪ hey-ay hey-ay-ay hey-ay hey-ay-ay hey-ay hey-ay-ay hey-ay hey-ay-ay ♪

♪ hey-ay hey-ay-ay hey-ay hey ♪ ♪ why are you my clarity hey-ay hey-ay-ay hey-ay hey-ay-ay ♪ ♪ why are you my remedy ♪ if our love is tragedy why are you my remedy if our love's insanity why are you my clarity ♪ ♪ if our love is tragedy why are you my remedy if our love's insanity why are you my clarity ♪

♪ if our love's insanity why are you my clarity ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ "gma's summer concert series" is presented by dreamwalk in

♪ we are back with mul multi-grammy award winning deejay, producer, songwriter, zedd, here in central park. >> you are 24 years old. already a grammy award winner. you have crossed over into so many platforms of music on so many charts and worked with so many people, how have those different types of music

influenced you? >> well, i was really influenced from the beginning on from my parents playing class cal music and enjoyed every single music i've played from rock, jazz to electronic music and every little piece i make just influences me to write more stuff and that's all i want to do. i just want to write more music and make people happy. >> so far so good. i mean just to name a few you've worked with hailey williams from paramour, lady gaga. and, miriam, is it true you discovered the great vocals of miriam. >> i had. it was on german radio. i was back for a few days and had to pick someone up and that person was late so i waited and she came on the radio and i looked her up. she like -- i don't think she had a twitter account or anything so-called my manager and said that's the one. we're signing her and, you know, now she's here. >> that's the one. that's the one. that's got to feel great, miriam.

originally you sang the song we're about to hear with hailey williams from paramour. today we get to hear "stay the night" with miriam bryant. let's do it. ♪ ♪ i know that we are upside down so hold your tongue and hear me out ♪ ♪ i know that we were made to break so what i don't mind ♪ ♪ you kill the lights i'll draw the blinds don't dull the sparkle in your eyes ♪ ♪ i know that we were made to break so what i don't mind ♪ ♪ are you gonna stay the night are you gonna stay the night ♪ ♪ oh oh oh oh are you gonna stay

the night ♪ ♪ are you gonna stay the night doesn't mean we're bound for life ♪ ♪ so oh oh oh are you gonna stay the night ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i am a fire you're gasoline come pour yourself all over me ♪ ♪ we'll let this place go down in flames only one more time ♪ ♪ you kill the lights i'll draw the blinds don't dull the sparkle in your eyes ♪ ♪ i know that we were made to break so what i don't mind ♪

♪ are you gonna stay the night are you gonna stay the night ♪ ♪ oh oh oh are you gonna stay the night ♪ ♪ are you gonna stay the night doesn't mean we're bound for life ♪ ♪ so oh oh oh are you gonna stay the night ♪ ♪ ♪ are you gonna stay the night are you gonna stay the night ♪ ♪ oh oh oh oh are you gonna stay

the night ♪ ♪ are you gonna >> announcer: this is an abc news special report. disaster in the sky. now, reporting, david muir. >> good morning, and we come on the air at this hour because president obama is about to speak on two major international stories under r unfolding in the last 24 hours much we've been recording on the downing of the malaysian flight mh 17. as we're getting pictures of the billowing smoke. we learned of the militants into gaza. 17 militants killed and one israeli soldier. the president watching that unfold as the white house follows the fast-moving developments after the jetliner

was shot down on tukraine. here's what we know. 298 people killed including 3 newborns, 80 children, no americans confirmed on board. we know one american investigator with the ntsb is on the way. u.s. authorities believe the plane was shot down by what appears to be a surface-to-air missile. we learned that that missile was fired from rebel-held territory on the ukrainian side of the border. we have our entire team. johnathan karl is in the white house waiting with the president. we're expecting to hear from the president on both fronts. >> reporter: the bulk of his comes will be on the aircraft just after samantha powers gave a very emotional statement at this, pointed the fingers at the pro-russian rebels and russia himself. and here's the president. the president approaching the podium. >> good morning, everybody.

yesterday, malaysian airlines flight mh-17 took off from amsterdam and was shot down over ukraine near the russian border. nearly 300 innocent lives were taken. many, women, children, infants, who had nothing to do with the crisis in ukraine. their deaths are an outrage of unspeakable proportions. we know at least one american citizen, quinn lucas shonsman was killed. our thoughts and players are with his family for this terrible loss. i spoke with the netherlands and malaysia, and said that our thoughts are with them and american people are thinking of them. later i'll speak with prime

minister abbott of australia which also suffered a terrible loss. by far the country that lost the most people aboard is the netherlands. they've been close friends and salt wart allies of the united states of america and today i want the dutch people to know we stand with you shoulder to shoulder in our grief and our absolute determination to get to the bottom of what happened. here's what we know so far. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area controlled by russian-backed separatists inside of ukraine. we also know this is not the first time a plane has been shot down in eastern ukraine. over the last self-weeks russian-ing baaed celebratists shot down a ukrainian transport plane, a ukrainian helicopter and claimed responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian

fighter jet. we know these celebratists received a steady flow of support from russian, this includes arms and training. it includes heavy weapons, and it includes anti-aircraft weapons. here's what must happen now. this was a global tragedy. an asian airliner was destroyed in european skies filled with citizens from many countries. so there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened. the u.n. security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russia, to their word, in order to facilitate that investigation. russia, pro-russian separatists, and ukraine must adhere to an immediate cease-fire. evidence must not be tampered with, investigators need to access the crash site, and the solemn task of returning those who were lost on board the plane

to their loved ones needs to go forward immediately. the united states stands ready to provide any assistance necessary. we already offered the support of the fbi and national transportation safety boardly has experience in working with international partners on these types of investigations. they are on their way. personnel from the fbi and national transportation safety board in the coming hours and days i'll continue to be in close contact with leaders around the world as we respond to this catastrophe. our immediate focus is on uncovering those lost, inve investigate what happened and putting fort the facts. i want to point out there will likely be misinformation as well. i think it's very important for folks that sit through what is factually based and what is simply speculation. no one can deny the truth that is revealed and the awful images

that we all have seen. the eyes of the world are on eastern ukraine and we are going to make sure that the truth is out. more broadly, i think it's important for us to recognize that this outrageous event underscores that it is time for peace and security to be restored in ukraine. for months, we've supported a pathway to peace and the ukrainian government has reached out to all ukrainian, put forward a peace plan and lived up to a cease-fire despite repeated rye legislations by the separatists. violations that took the lives of ukrainian soldiers and personnel. mover, time and again, russia has refused to take the concrete steps necessary to deescalate the situation. i spoke to president putin yesterday in the wake of additional sanctions that we had imposed. he said he wasn't happy with them and i told him that we have been very clear from the outset

that we want russia to take the path that would result in peace in ukraine, but so far at least russia has failed to take that path. instead it has continued to violate ukrainian sovereignty and support violent separatists. it also failed to use its influence for the separatities to abide by a cease-fire. that's why together with their allies weave imposed sanctions on russia. now is a somber and appropriate time for all of us to step back and take a hard look at what has happened. violence and conflict inevitably lead toconsequences, russia, separatists and ukraine all have the capacity to put an end to the fighting. mean while the united states is going to continue to lead efforts within the world community to deescalate the situation and sand up for

solitairity and integrity of ukraine and to support them as they work to make their own decisions about how they should move forward and strengthen democracy. before i take this, a couple questions, let me remark on one other issue. this morning i spoke to prime minister netanyahu about the situation in gaza. we talked about the effort to stop the threat of terrorist infiltration through tunnels into israel. i reaffirmed my strong support for israel's right to defend itself. no nation should accept rockets being fired into its borders or terrorists tunnelling into its territory. while i was having the conversation with right minister netanyahu sirens went off in tetel av aviv. and the united states, and our friends and allies are concerned about the risks and loss of more

civilian life. although we support military efforts by the israelis to make sure rockets are not fired have that our understanding as the current military ground operations are designed to deal with the tunnels and we are hopeful that israel will continue to approach this process in a way that minimizes civilian casualties and that all of us are working hard to return to the cease-fire that was reached in november of 2012. secretary kerry is working to support egypt's initiative to achieve that outcome. i told prime minister netanyahu that john is prepared to follow in the region. onboard malaysian airline flight 17. there were apparently nearly 100 advocates traveling to an