four palestinian boys are killed when israel bombs bomb a beach strip hours before a humanitarian cease-fire kicks in. president obama announces new sanctions against russia for backing the rebels in ukraine. russia says the sanctions are illegal and unfair. and the head of the cdc admits to a pattern of problems at his agency. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, july 17th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. in the middle east, a brief break from the fighting. a cease-fire between israel and hamas went into effect this morning.

it's to allow aid to civilians in gaza but israel said they would not hesitate to attack if they launch missiles during the break. since it began 221 people have been killed. susan mcginnis is in washington. good morning, susan. >> good morning, anne-marie. the fighting stopped about an hour ago, but it lasted right up until the deadline, including according to the israeli military 13 who crossed through a tunnel only to be met by a bomb through an israeli aircraft. smoke filled the sky over gaza this morning hours before the scheduled start of a five-hour cease-fire. israel and hamas militants agreed to pause in fighting to allow humanitarian aid. the united nations requested the recess so palestinians could restock supplies like food and water.

they struck dozens of targets including homes of top hamas leaders. one of the explosions hit this beach, killing four young boys. hamas answered back, firing rockets into israel. in washington, president obama showed support for both israelis and palestinians. >> the israeli people and the palestinian people don't want to live like this. they deserve to live in peace and security, free from fear. >> the president is pushing for greater diplomacy in the region but at a news conference wednesday, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country will do wait needs to do in order to defend its state. >> israel has to do to defend its citizens as any normal country would against terrorists committing double war crimes. >> now the cease-fire ends in about four hours and as of now, anne-marie, there seems to be nothing to stop the air strikes from starting again once these

five hours are up. >> all right. susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. the palestinian/american teenager who was beaten by soldiers is back in florida this morning. he and his mother arrived back in tampa yesterday. a videotape of him apparently being beaten in jerusalem two weeks ago sparked international outrage. in afghanistan there was a fierce gun battle at the international airport in kabul this morning. afghan officials say the attack lasted four hours. four militants armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades were killed. airport officials say all flights were diverted during the assault. and russian officials blasted u.s. sanctions this morning. they called them illegal and warned they could have devastating consequences for world financial markets. president obama announced the new round of tough sanctions yesterday. craig boswell takes a look at who the u.s. is targeting. >> reporter: president obama's trying to force russia to stop supporting rebels in ukraine. >> i've repeatedly made it clear

that russia must halt the flow of weapons and fighters across the border into ukraine. >> reporter: the new sanctions target two big russian banks, energy companies, and weapons manufacturers. >> they're efficient but targeted, designed to have a maximum impact on russia without having a spillover effect on other companies or u.s. allies. >> reporter: pro-russian separatists are fighting to break away from the new government in kiev. the pentagon says in the last few weeks russia has been building up its presence on the ukraine border. about 12,000 troops are now there. >> what we're expecting is that the russian leadership will see once again that its actions in ukraine have consequences. >> reporter: senior administration officials tell cbs news the president spoke to his down perparts in the uk, germany, and france last week, and wednesday night eu leaders

voted on the sanctions against russia. craig boswell, cbs news, washington. at the white house yesterday president obama talked about what he calls a complex world. bob schieffer, chief correspondent and hot of "face the nation" takes a look at how complex it is. >> john mccain said the other day he could never recall a time when there was so much turmoil in so many different places in the world, and when the president came on television yesterday and talked about putting new sanction on russia, he just underlined that. this is a very complex situation. the president called it that and that may well be the understatement of the year. he was talking about putting sanctions on russia over their actions in ukraine, yet not so long ago we were trying to get russia's help in tamping down the civil war in syria. we wanted russia's help in trying to reign in iran's nuclear capabilities.

we didn't get much help with them on that. and yet as we look at the other things that are happening, we now find ourselves on the same side as syria and iran in trying to figure out what to do with this group called isis that is claiming so much territory now in iraq. meantime the secretary of state is flying around the world from crisis to crisis. he hasn't had much success to report. in some ways we may yet be in a more unstable world right now than we were at the height of the cold war with the soviet union. at least then we knew who the enemy was and what their objectives are. now we seem to find ourselves becoming immersed in a series of events that are simply out of control. bob schieffer, cbs news, washington. in the debate on immigration, democrats appear to be turning against president obama. many are now against speeding up the return of the young central

american migrants crossing into the u.s. president obama is calling for the change as part of his $3.7 billion emergency border spending plan. after meeting with the president yesterday, some members of the congressional hispanic caucus blamed republicans and said he should just bypass congress. >> we have asked in a very sensible way, i think, the president to exercise some administrative relief to try to keep families from being ripped apart. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi said yesterday she's now against the quick deportation of the young migrants. and on the "cbs moneywatch" now, rupert murdoch's big move, and you may soon be getting a refund from apple. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. >> good morning, anne-marie. media giant rupert murdoch keeps expected to keep trying to buy rival time warner burke the $76

billion bid by murdock's 21st century fox was rejected. he wants to own hbo and other popular channels. if he succeeds, it would make the company's bargaining position higher in demanding higher fees from tv distributors. tokyo's nikkei lost a fraction. hong kong's hang seng was flat. here on wall street investors will be watching for the latest data on housing starts and weekly unemployment. the dow was up 77 points yesterday to finish at a new record high and the nasdaq gained 9 points. president obama visits delaware today to talk about the economy again. the president will announce a new initiative to release private sector structure. he also wants congress to replace federal highway funds. general motors' ceo mary barra will be testifying before congress again today. barra will answer more questions about the company's handling of

recalls involving a defective ignition switch that led to 13 deaths. gm has forced out 15 people for failing to take action on the problem for more than a decade. and apple is ordered to refund customers up to $400 million to settle a lawsuit over price fixing of ebooks. the agreement between the tech giant and 33 states resolves the case that accused the company of conspireing with five book publishers to charge more for eboo ebooks. apple denies the charges and plans to appeal. anne-marie? >> all right. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. coming up on the "morning news," western wildfires. emergencies are declared in two states where fires are burning out of control. this is the "cbs morning news." ning out of control. this is the "cbs morning news." it's the yoplait greek taste-off and we are asking the music city which 100-calorie strawberry greek yogurt is the next big thing. i'm a random lady with a table full of yogurt. want some greek yogurt? can i ask you a question? tell us what tastes best.

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i think that's going to involve a number of steps that we think will succeed but will take time. >> reporter: members of congress were skeptical. representative jan schakowsky and tim murphy. >> whenever i hear the world "culture" and the "cultural problem," i know we have a real challenge on our hand. >> the centers for disease control is supposed to be the gold standard of the u.s. public health system and it's been tarnished. >> reporter: committee members were troubled by a usda report they found where recordkeeping and security were lax and some materials were transferred in zep lock bags. >> what in heaven's name goes through a mind of some scientist to think that ziploc bags would protect someone against anthrax. >> it's about an increasing number of highly secure labs separate from the cdc. do you have the authority to the country that don't officially belong to the cdc? >> cdc works with select agents,

certain or the most dangerous microbes and we have in the past shut some of these laboratories if there are lapses in protocol. >> reporter: but the general accounting office told congress no federal entity is responsible for extra technological planning and oversight of high contain&laboratories. so in essence there's no single person or agency of regulating labs across the whole country. the cdc has four labs capable of running at the highest bsl-4 safety level but there are nine other safety labs capable of this level and they're not operated by the cdc. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. well, straight ahead, your thursday morning weather. and in sports, michael sam is honored at the espy awards. a line of nutrient-rich skincare with pure, naturally derived ingredients, carefully chosen and clinically proven to cleanse, purify and moisturize... and you'll never find any harsh chemical sulfates,

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morning's top stories in the middle east. a brief break in the fighting this morning. boast israel and hamas agreed to a five-hour humanitarian cease-fire so civilians in gaza could get food and water. and president obama announced new sanctions against russia targeting energy firms and banks. mr. obama hopes the economic pressure will end russia's support for insurgents in ukraine. three people including one hostage have been killed in california in bank robbery and high-speed chase. it started with a robbery at the bank of the west in stockton. the thieves took three women hostage and led police on a 45-minute chase. it ended with a shoot-out in which police killed two suspects. two hostages were thrown out of the vehicle during the chachls bank customer misty holt-singh

was the hostage killed. sergeant bowe bergdahl, the former p.o.w. has broken his silence. his lawyer says bergdahl is deeply grateful to president obama for his freedom. bergdahl was released in may after being held captive for five years. he returned to active duty earlier this week. and a new experimental procedure could eventually help heart patients lead ordinary lives without having to rely on an electronic pacemaker. bigad shaban reports on a new treatment that would elim mate may of the side effects and health risks. >> reporter: there's been a new gene therapy procedure developed that would use a patient's own cells that would help speed up an abnormally slow heart rate. that would eliminate the need for pacemakers. what would the impact of that be? >> go in for a quick procedure and be cured for life. >> reporter: this minimally invasive procedure which has so far been only tested on animals changes heart muscle cells and

acts like an electronic pacemaker, sending a heart rate to send enough flow through the body. >> we're creating a new structure within the heart that's capable of setting the beat like a metronome. we go in with a catheter, a thin tube that has a needle inside it, and using a very focal gene injection, we can get the heart beat to initiate. >> researches here at cedar sinai heart institute hope their work can one day be used to help babies born with congenital heart problems. dr. marpan says the new treatment can even help babies still in the woman where traditional pacemakers can't be used. >> we can think about a day where we might put in a gene and fix their hearts forever. >> clinical hearts for people could begin in the next three years. bigad shaban, cbs news, los angeles. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," comedian jason segel. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." segel.

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83,000 u.s. servicemembers who dialed in who died in world war ii are still unaccounted for. cbs news has exclusively obtained a draft of a soon to be released report that is sharply critical of the pentagon's agency that's responsible for bringing them home. chip reid reports. >> what does it mean to you to finally have your brother buried here? >> well, he's home. >> reporter: it took mickey beard decades of fighting bureaucracy to get her older brother staff sergeant george winkler buried at arlington national cemetery. he was killed in the philippines in 1945 but not laid to rest here until 2011. >> i couldn't get anybody to pay attention to me. they just said, well, they didn't know what happened to him.

>> reporter: the pentagon agency's responsibility to identify and bring home the dead has long been criticized by the families. and a report shows that criticism is well deserved. the report says dozens of former and current employees, most with the joint p.o.w./m.i.a. command show as picture resulting in a hostile and dysfunctional working environmental. there's no clearly defined mission, no strategic plan and no single database that lists all mich.i.a.s from past confli. it leaves the pentagon agencies unable to know who is actually missing. in february defense secretary chuck hagel ordered a major shakeup. >> and what that means to families is, first, they will be communicated with clearly, directly, and it will be communications from one central location.

that has not been the case. >> reporter: but many world war ii families believe they've been all but forgotten. >> they're probably waiting for all of us to go away. >> reporter: the government holds annual meetings for families killed in korea and vietnam and even pace for travel. but families like beard get none of that. while no one pushed to get dna samles from victims from korea and vietnam, they've collected less than 5% from families of ward war 2 m.i.a.s, making it harder to identify them. >> do you think your brother was treated like a hero from world war ii? >> no. >> what was he treated like? >> somebody who didn't come home, i guess. >> j.p.a.c. will make it right and bring the thousands of other

heroes still missing back home. chip reid, cbs news, arlington national cemetery. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," we'll go live to gaza on the latest on the crisis in the middle east. holly williams will have an update. plus, we'll show a project to save the coral reef in miami that's in danger of being destroyed. and comedian jason segel joins us in the studio. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, july 17. i'm michelle griego. >> the weekend is ever so close, everybody. so close. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat.

[ laughter ] >> it's nearly 4:30. lawrence has a couple of days good morning to you. ling in. >> you can almost taste the weekend, right? >> we can! i can see it right over there! [ laughter ] >> you know, we are pretty much in a benign weather pattern now. what you get right now at this particular time, 50s, 60s is what you will be experiencing all weekend long. later today our high temperatures will top off pretty much 60s beaches with barely any clearing. full-on sunshine away from the bay. that seven-day forecast still straight ahead. >> we have a couple of chp issued wind advisories one for the carquinez bridge and one for the antioch bridge, and lot of overnight roadwork including at the bay bridge. "kcbs traffic" a few minutes away. >> all right. thank you, elizabeth. in stockton, three men robbed a bank, took three hostages and shot up the town. kpix 5's juliette goodrich in hoockton reports one of the