>> tonight, challenging russia over malaysia airlines flight 17. as rebels in ukraine are accused of blocking the crash investigation, angry european leaders call on vladimir putin to "show the world he intends to help." we have a team of correspondents covering the story. israel says it's discovered more than a dozen hamas tunnels as the ground war intensifies. barry petersen and holly williams report from both sides of the gaza border. strong wind and high temperatures are driving dozens of wildfires across washington state. danielle nottingham has the latest. and a trumpet like noother is silenced. new orleans remembers america's oldest working jazz musician.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. it's a crash site and it's a crime scene but what the area of eastern ukraine where the wreckage of malaysia airlines flight 17 lies is not is it the location of an active investigation. two days after the jet with 298 aboard was shoot out of the sky, row after row of body bags lie in fields. russian-supported rebels control the area and they are not giving international investigators complete access. pressure is mounting on russian leader vladimir putin to help make that happen with american and ukrainian intelligence pointing to the rebels as the ones who fired the missile that brought the plane down. the prime minister of the netherlands in what he describes as an intense phone call reports telling russian president putin the rebels are his responsibility. we have a team of correspondents

covering the story. we begin with mark phillips in eastern ukraine. >> reporter: to tragedy indignity has now been added here. workers have finally begun to retrieve some of the bodies of the victims of this crash but only some. most of the 298 people whose remains are scattered across these fields still lie exposed under the summer sun. temperatures today were in the 80s. no refrigerated trucks have arrived so far. the bodies have begun to decompose. the self-proclaimed donetsk people's republic, which controls the site has said it will cooperate with an international investigation into the crash, but that promise does not seem to have gotten through to their men on the ground. for the second day in a row, an advanced party from the o.s.c.e., the european security body that's supposed to run the investigation, was denied access. local commanders allowed only a brief, restricted visit under

close supervision, and the o.s.c.e.'s alexander hug was not happy. >> i have an agreement with your minister. if you say to me that you do not respect it i will not run against your order but i will report back. >> reporter: two days after the crash, no search for clues about how this plane came down has begun. this is exactly the sort of thing that a crash investigating team would be looking at. this is the tail section of the plane. this would have been upright, the rudder part. the leading edge of it seemed to show deep, penetrating holes, seemed to indicate some sort of perhaps shrapnel, exactly the kind of thing you'd see in an explosion and exactly the sort of thing the investigators would want to be looking at by now. when will the inspectors come? will they be here tomorrow, i asked the local commander? "maybe," he says. and there's still the mystery of the plane's data recorders, the black box so crucial to any

crash investigation. contrary to earlier reports, the rebels now say they don't have them. in this case, though, the evidence on the ground, the evidence that is not being inspected, jim, may be more critical. >> axelrod: mark phillips covering for us in eastern ukraine. mark, thank you. so how does the crash investigation proceed if the rebels are tampering with the evidence on the ground? let's bring in our senior national security annual icht juan zarate in washington. juan, how strong is u.s. intelligence on all this? and do they need physical evidence to back up what they've seen on satellites? >> u.s. and international authorities want access to that site, jim. they want forensic experts to get in to help understand what happened to the plane. they want data from the frownd. but it's not the only source of information that u.s. intelligence will have. they'll have information from satellite and radar imagery. they'll have intercepts and other intelligence, and they'll have other sources of information from foreign counter-parts. they want to put together a complete picture to not only understand what happened but who is responsible. >> axelrod: so at this point,

what is the intelligence suggesting about the biggest question, that of direct russian involvement in all of this? >> well, the information is strongly suggesting that russia had some degree of involvement. clearly, they've been arming the russian separatists in eastern ukraine. this missile came from russian separatist-controlled territory, and the system seems to have been a russian-made surface-to-air missile system. so at a minimum russia has been arming, enabling and training these forces to shoot down aircraft. >> axelrod: juan, thank you. >> thank you, jim. >> reporter: british prime minister david cameron said today if it is proven separatists were behind the downing of flight 17, russia's destabilization of ukraine is to blame. when the dutch prime minister expressed hisanger and display to vladimir putin during that phone call today, he was spea speaking for his entire country. elizabeth palmer has been watching the outpouring of grief. >> reporter: the book of remembrance in st. vitus' church

is filling up fast. practly everyone knows someone in the small town of hilversum who died in the crash, 12 in all. take the pee-wee soccer league. it lost a key family. 12-year-old verter, a player, his sister and mother, and his dad, who ran the team's web site. ricardo metz is a league referee. >> we are devastated. we are broken. >> reporter: along with the shock and the grief, there is a great anger in the netherlands. and a growing consensus on who is responsible. just look at the front page of one of the main national newspapers, a photograph of the pro-russian rebels in ukraine, and one word across the top "murderers." the government isn't goings that far. but it has sent its foreign minister to kiev demanding answers. >> we want to know who did this and we want the proof to be there. not just the people who pulled the trigger. also the people who made this

possible. >> reporter: in other words, he means russia. until now, an ally of the netherlands. hilversum's mayor is pieter broertjes. >> we have a very strong relationship with putin. >> reporter: and you have trade links. >> that's correct. >> reporter: those trade links undermine the netherlands' leverage to force russia to cooperate in a credible investigation. do you think they're going to do it? >> no. >> reporter: right now the dutch want one thing above all-- for russia to use its influence and bring the bodies home. the main european powers are facing an unpleasant truth, jim. if they really lean hard on russia to get to the bottom of this plane crash, they are going to have to sacrifice crucial commercial and diplomatic ties. >> axelrod: elizabeth palmer in mark strassman, thank you. let's go now to clarissa ward in moscow. clarissa as the pressure continues to build on the russians, what kind of response are you seeing?

>> reporter: this is potentially a nightmare scenario for the kremlin if these rebels who they have been supporting and extolling as freedom fighters are proven to be responsible for this terrible tragedy, and so perhaps because of that the response we're seeing from the russian leadership has been muted and extremely cautious. they've called repeatedly for an international, impartial investigation. they've said that they would support and cooperate with that investigation, but what we don't know yet is whether they're exert anything influence, can which they have a lot of, on the rebels to try to get these rebels to open up and give the investigators unfettered access to the site. >> axelrod: clarissa, how is the russian media reporting this story? what are the russian people being told happened? >> reporter: well, news channel here are trying to poke holes in the ukrainian government's narrative. they're saying that the rebels have allowed investigators open access to the site, that they're behaving professionally, and they've also even suggest that ukrainian military may be

responsible for downing the plane. >> axelrod: clarissa ward in moscow. clarissa, thank you. for the second time in four months, malaysia airlines has suffered a devastating loss. the company says its pilots did not wrong flying the route it did over eastern ukraine, but as jeff pegues reports, the damage done to tharily may be irreparable. >> reporter: today malaysia airlines defended itself against accusations it shares some of the blame for what happened because its pilot flew too close to a war zone. liow tiong lai is the country's minister of transport. >> reporter: just over two weeks ago, ukrainian officials warned it was unsayer to fly at 26,000 feet in the donetsk region. then just three days before the crash, they raised the floor to 32,000 feet.

mh17 was flying at 33,000 feet when it was shot out of the sky. the plane was following a route well traveled by other airlines. according to flight radar 24 over the seven days prior to the crash, more than 800 commercial planes had chosen a similar flight path. malaysia airlines is now trying to weather a second aviation tragedy just four months after the disappearance of mh370 with 239 people on board. not only has its reputation been tarnished, but the airline has been losing money, $1.3 billion over the past three years. peter greenburg is the cbs news travel editor. >> their bochings are flatlined. their future bookings are not even on the radar, if you'll excuse that expression. and that's whaepg is it's going beyond that. >> reporter: just last month in a speech, the company's c.e.o. vowed to rebuild the airline, but that was, of course, before thursday's crash.

jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >> axelrod: moving now to the middle east where an israeli ground invasion of the palestinian territories is under way. u.n. scenl ban ki-moon will travel to the region tonight. we have reports from both gaza and tel aviv. we'll start in gaza with holly williams who reports 46 more people were killed by israeli bombs today. >> reporter: the israeli military pounded the gaza strip with airstrikes for a 12th day. the ground offensive is so far limited in scale. today, we drove to within a mile of gaza's border with israel, and just a few hundred yards from israeli soldiers and tanks. the closer you get to where the israeli troops are, the quieter the streets get, and you can see that this road has almost entirely emptied out. we're not going any further because just around that corner behind me four men were killed

earlier by artillery fire. israel's bombardment of gaza has left hundreds of homes destroyed and killed more than 300 palestinians, many of them children. if israel does expand its ground offensive as its government suggested, the price may be more bloodshed. holly williams, cbs news, gaza. >> axelrod: israel has suffered many fewer casualties, despite an estimated 1500 rockets launched from gaza since the conflict began but the danger is real there, too, especially as hamas tunnels underground turgt and further into israeli territory. two israeli soldiers were killed today by hamas fighters who used one one of the tubl tunnels. >> reporter: sometimes the war is high-tech, a tunnel discovered and blown up, along with those in it. sometimes street by street, this is israeli soldier's job-- blow

up the entrance to another tunnel. and sometimes the war seems positively medieval. rells say explosive-laden donkeyed were aimed at israeli soldiers. as in gaza, the innocent are victims here. the hamas record killed an israeli bedouin killing four, including two children. israel says about half the 10,000 rockets hamas has have either been shot off or found and destroyed. army spokesman peter lerner. >> reporter: and the try for peace continues. with the u.n. secretary-general visiting the middle east, hoping to accomplish what other efforts have not-- getting the two sides to start talking and stop shooting. jim. >> axelrod: barry petersen reporting for us tonight from tel aviv. thank you, barry.

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>> axelrod: we end tonight where we started -- trying to process the horror of malaysia airlines flight 17. of the 298 victims aboard, 43 were malaysian, including all 15 members of the flight crew. seth doane has the story of one flight attendant and the widow he left behind. >> reporter: he's text you from amsterdam at this point before boarding the flight. madiani mahdi's husband, mohammad noor mahmood, was a member of flight 17's cabin crew. today, in a house full of grieving family members, madiani showed us the last text they exchanged. >> we always flied together. i met him on amsterdam flight

mh16. >> reporter: they were both flight attendants for malaysia airlines and met five years ago on that same kuala lumpur-amsterdam route. >> come, come, come, sit. >> reporter: they fell in love, and two years ago, zulika was born. your daughter was close to your husband. >> very close. >> reporter: in march, when flight 370 never landed, it sent shock waves through their company, and strengthened their marriage. >> he changed a lot after 370 happened. >> reporter: how did your husband change? >> changed for a better better than, better husband, very loving, caring. it's like a wake-up call for airline crew, malaysia airlines crew, that if we go for flight, it doesn't mean that we are coming back. >> reporter: on thursday, that's exactly what happened. do you think you'll fly again?

>> i don't know. >> reporter: hours after she'd learned her husband's flight had exploded over ukraine, she sent another text. joon i said, after landing call me. >> reporter: but at this point, you knew the plane was gone. >> i don't know. i just, i say, "i will wait for you." >> reporter: "i'll wait for you," she wrote, just because that's what she'd always done. seth doane, cbs news, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >> i'm jim axelrod, and for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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