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 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 gaza launches rock es missiles the break. >> 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 taunl only to be met by a bomb through an israeli aircraft. smoke filled the sky over gaza this morning hours before the sceduled start of a five-hour cease-fire. israel and hamas agreed to a pause in fighting to allow humanitarian aid. the united nations r s requestee recess so they could bring in 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 as a news conference thursday prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country will do what it has to do to defend its states. >> we have to take whatever precautions necessary. 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 fire hours are up. >> all right. susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan.

the palestinian/american teenager who was beaten by soldiers is back in america this morning. they arrived 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 two sanctions target two big russian banks, energy companies and weapons manufacturers. >> they're targeted, designed to have a maximum impact on russia without having a spillover effect on other companies or u.s. allies. 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 crew crane has consequences. >> reporter: the president spoke to his counter parts in the uk, germany, and france last week and last 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 refujd 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

expecting to win time warner. but the 21st century stocks was rejected. he wants to own hbo and other popular channels. if he succeeds it would make the company's bargaining position longer in demanding higher fees from tv distributors. tokyo's nikkei lost a frang. honk kang's hang seng was flats. here on wall street investors will be watching for the latest. the dow was up 77 points yesterday, firnd at a new record president obama visits delaware today to talk about the economy again. he'll announce a new initiative to release private sector. he also wants congress to replace federal highway funds. general motors' ceo mary barra will be testifying before congress again today. she'll be answering more questions about the company's handling of recalls about 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 $4 million to setstle a lawsuit ovr price fixing with ebooks. they accuse the company of conspiring to charge more for 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." 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. this one is definitely the winner. that one is good.

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>> reporter: members of congress were skeptical. representative jan schakowsky and jim. >> whenever i hear culture, i know we have a real challenge on our hands. >> 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: they found recordkeeping and security were lax and some materials were transferred in ziploc balgs between bags. >> what in heaven's name goes through a mind of some scientist to think that protecting something in a ziploc bag prevents anthrax from getting in the hands. >> it's about an increasing number of highly secure labs separate from the cdc. do you have the authority to control other labs throughout the country that don't officially belong to the cdc? >> cdc works with select agents,

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here's another look at this 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 and 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. four howere killed in california. it started with a robbery of the bank of the west. they took three hostage. it ended in a shoot-out. two hostages were thrown out of the feel during the chachlts bank customer miss is 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. he was leased 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. wee good shaban speaks of the new treatment that would eliminate many of the side effects. >> reporter: there's been a new gene therapy procedure 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 cell muscles 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 focal gene injection we can get the heart to initiate. >> researchers can hope their work can one day help babies that were born with congenital heart problems. dr. marpan says it can help babies still in the womb where traditional pacemakers can't be used. >> we can thing about a day where we might put in a geep and fix their hearts forever. >> clinical hearts for people could begin in the next three years. bee began 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."

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83,000 u.s. servicemembers 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 you do have your brother finally buried here? >> 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 here until 2011. >> i couldn't get anybody to pay attention to me and they said they didn't know what happened to him.

>> reporter: ta 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 plan and no single database that identifies all m.i.a.s from past conflicts. 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. >> but many world war ii families believe they've been all but forgot snoon they're probably weight for all of us to go away. >> the government holds family meetings for families killed in korea and vietnam and even pays for travel but even ward war 2 families get none of that. while no one pushed to get dna samples, they've collected less than 5% from families of world war ii m.i.a.ers making it harder to identify them. >> do you think yourborough 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 th"cbs this morning," w geel to the crisis in the middle east. holly williams will have an update. plus we'll show a project off the coral reef 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.

and, today is thursday, july 17th good morning i'm ukee washington. i'm erika von tiehl. here are stories we are following today. elderly couple is dead and police are trying to figure out why. nicole brewer has a live report coming up. president obama will be in delaware to talk about infrastructure in the shadow of the i495 bridge. cease-fire is in effect between both israel and hamas how long will it last? we will tell you coming up. those stories and much more underway. lets start with the weather forecast and a nice morning this morning. >> yes, but you have been talking to us all week, katie. >> this is like my favorite day of the forecast because it is day after the storms, like we are finally cleared.