the israel claims the iron dome intercepted many of the rockets and shot down and unmanned dream launched from gaza adding a new element to the conflict. meantime thousands are fleeing northern gaza where israel is warning of stepped up attacks. those fleeing include americans and other foreigners. officials in gaza say at least 175 people have been killed. nearly 80% civilians. many were children. while no israelis have been killed. live coverage from across the region. martin fletcher is in tel-aviv and ayman mojadidi is live in gaza. martin, let me start with you. as we mentioned, this drone fired from gaza shot down by patriot missiles. this is a new escalation in the region. >> israelis don't really see it as an escalation. it's an introduction of a new

weapon. israel knew they had a dream system in effect. the israeli air force dropped the drone manufacturing program a few years ago. it's built up again. there appears to be a few different kinds of drones hamas operates. when the israelis spotted it. the israeli air force responded with an american-made patriot missile and shot the drone down. the israelis say it did no damage. they don't know whether it was carrying an explosive or not. it is not a new weapon but they're not concerned. >> let's talk about what we witnessed over the weekend. boots on the ground into gaza yesterday. israel said four were slightly wounded in a gun battle with hamas militants. tell us more what happened over the weekend there. >> yeah. that's right. there was a navy commander unit from a specialized unit and they said they went in on the ground because the israelis spotted a

rocket launch iing system in a mosque. they said they couldn't attack it from the air. they had to go in on the ground. four israeli soldiers were wounded. the israelis said they accomplished their mission and got home safely. that's just the first news we've had of any israeli, as you mentioned, booted on the ground. we don't know what the special units are doing secretly. it's the first they publicized. i would imagine because there was gun fight and some were wounded. what it means is israel is not adverse to the idea of sending troops into gaza when they need to. israeli army is masked on the border. almost 40,000 army reserves were call the up. they're wait thing a the border. i was with an army unit this morning on the edge of gaza about a half mile from gaza. they said they're standing by and waiting. now it seems, tamron, to be a question of race of time. what will come first. the negotiated ceasefire or israeli ground invasion. >> thank you very much.

let me bring in ayman mag key sh -- mojadidmojadidi. 80% killed were civilians. many more are children. they're told to brace for more. benjamin netanyahu saying all options are on the table. >> that's correct, tamron. in fact, it gives you a sense of what palestinians describe the kind of psychological terror they have to live with. this notion that their homes could be attacked. their neighborhoods could be ato attacked and have nowhere to flee. it's the issue palestinians will speak to about the plight they're dealing with. gaza is a territory besieged. the borders between israel and gaza are effectively sealed off. and the border between gaza and is egypt is limited to only those with severe medical conditions.

when they get notice of an impending strike and asked to evacuate like over the weekend forcing 17,000 people to flee their homes. they tell you they don't know where to go. it's not as if any part of gaza has been immune to the air strikes. we've seen them in every part since the conflict began. that's one of the issues palestinians will point to time and time again. all of gaza is being attacked they have nowhere to go. it was another issue brought up by the u.s. embassy officials we were speaking to about why they needed to evacuate u.s. citizens that were trapped inside gaza. that's the word they were using to describe 800 foreign nationals that were from around the world dual citizens that lived in gaza or visiting gaza and trying to get out. that was facilitied by the united nations. for the rest of the people that's not going to happen. >> and we also know, we'll talk more about washington and what the obama administration is doing regarding diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, but there is the arab league meeting

in cairo being attended by palestinian authority. more do we know about that latest set of meetings? >> well, right now the issue about the ceasefire, as the israelis presented is called calm for calm. israel stop operations in gaza so long as the palestinians stop firing rockets into israel. but the palestinian factions have been complaining of a double standard when it comes to previous ceasefires they say vale violated. specifically it comes down to the issue of blockade and siege imposed on gaza. they want to see a lifting of that. they also want to see some of the palestinian leaders of hamas and others in the west bank that were arrested as a result of the kidnapping of the three israeli jewish teens that were murdered. they want to see the individuals since they've had no charges brought against them. they were rounded up and masked by the hundred without any

specific evidence being brought forth. the issues are still the sticking points. it's hard to see right now whether the arab league or anyone can resolve those differences in the time being. >> thank you very much. and now let's go to the u.s. efforts to broker a ceasefire between israel and hamas. senior white house correspond t correspondent. we asked whether or not president obama would dispatch secretary kerry to the mideast, they declined to answer. >> that's right response far no decision, although you have to believe this is a source of constant conversation. the u.s. made it clear both through the president and secretary kerry they want to play a role and deescalading the violence. it started on thursday calling prime minister benjamin netanyahu. there's a series of phone calls with john kerry since then. and while reaffirming repeatedly that the u.s. believes that israel has a right to

self-defense, they also said they want both sides to sort of back down. they're leading the international call for this ceasefire it includes france, britain. there was a nonbinding resolution that happened saturday night at the united nations. what more specifically can the u.s. do? obviously middle east diplomacy is complicated. particularly in this case, hamas is considered a terrorist organization in the u.s. by that fact will not negotiate with their leaders. so who could get involved the united states said they have a number of relationships in that region they can broker. one obviously is egypt. played a critical role with the united states in brokering a ceasefire in 2012. they've had a change in the presidency. tony blare has been meeting with the egyptian president. they don't have a great relationship with hamas. turkey played a role in 2012, that relationship has always fractured.

the other possibility is kutter. the question that is out there today is will the president send john kerry there sometime this week. that's a question we're waiting for the answer to. >> thank you very much. let me bring in author and foreign policy expert who covered the middle east region for years and with us as well time magazine chief foreign affairs correspondent. let me start with you here. i want to play a little bit what benjamin netanyahu said on one of the sunday programs about israel's defense here. >> we can't enable our population to be under continuous rocket fire. i want your viewers to imagine the united states being bomba bombarded in not in one or two

cities but every city between new york and colorado. >> despite the number of civilians deaths john mccain is admiring the strength in his view it's admirable. what is your response to reaction to netanyahu's words? >> well, the question that netanyahu is avoiding to answer is not what is going on in gaza today. the real question is what is netanyahu and his government is going to do about the bigger question. the aspirations of medicals of palestinians for freedom, democracy si, and better life. 90% of the conditions and gave them nothing. hamas negotiated with israel a couple of times and got a lot. when the deal was made in 2012, they got 1,000 prisoners and over and over they used missiles against israel. and there is air strikes in the last eight years six or seven times.

the strategy is not work. it's not leading anywhere and guaranteeing the security of israel. maybe it's time to change strategy and address the bigger issue. what do you do with millions of people? >> if the idea to change strategy. who has the influence? chris named a couple of countries when he said egypt. i saw your head shake there. we vice preside we haven't heard the president say john kerry would be dispatched. >> there was a beautiful conference last week and many arab leaders another one was the king of saudi arabia who said we told israel many times in cairo, we told israel in lebanon in 2002 we're willing all arab countries together to recognize israel, normalize relationship on one condition. to give the palestinians state hood. 22% of the land. unfortunately israel ignored

these calls for peace and ignored these calls and ultimately left space only for extremists to play with. >> and michael, let me bring you in. as we look at the larger and more important and continued crisis that happens in the region right now immediately you have reporters on the ground who say with the escalation and with netanyahu saying everything is an option at this point, the immediate tension is of great concern. i want to play what palestinian legislat legislator, a very respective legislator what she had to say. let's play it. >> our the objective is to save lives. find protection for the palestinian people who have become targets for israeli for killing indiscriminately and deliberately. we want to see an immediate of the aggression assault against the palestinian people. but we also want to see that

israel is held to account. >> so, michael, you have a ton of phone calls with israeli prime minister netanyahu between him and the president. here we are looking at an escalation this morning. >> right. you know, i think that the united states is -- look, i recommend to people who are interested to go back and read the chapter hillary clinton wrote in her memoir about her role in mediating the last ceasefire in november of 2012. she goes through in detail the different factors the united states was weighing and president obama was weighing in trying to decide whether to get involved. it was not a no brainer on the part of the obama administration to broker that last ceasefire. there was concern if the u.s. tried to get involved, the u.s. did not want to see the situation spin out of control. president obama very much did not want to see that kind of escalation where the israelis a ground invasion and the casualties have grown higher an

the consequences spiral out of control. at the same time there was a concern in the white house both on the part of the president, the national security adviser, secretary clinton he's you were putting american prestige on the line. if it didn't work out, the u.s. could walk away with a black eye. it's only harder now for the reasons you discussed particularly egypt. so i think at this point, the concern is it does keep escal e escalading and the doesn't have a clear shot to play a helpful role right now. >> here we mentioned ground invasion prior to we are on the cusp. we're on the edge of that perhaps happening in the coming days, michael >>well, yes. that could force the issue here. because, again, if you look at the experience in 2012, that was a situation that obama officials really considered to be a potential disaster. they wanted to avoid that. you're talking about much more higher casualties. i think the view is a ground

invasion would be bad. it's bad for gaza and the palestinians. it's bad for vaisrael. i think there's concern netanyahu can get blocksed in political i. and hamas keeps escalading. that's a nightmare scenario. i don't see a neat solution right now. >> quickly, will you agree with what michael was saying? >> i agree. i think israel doesn't have -- there's no end game for both sides. it's tactics and there is no political strategy in the long game. hamas has a certain request that will never be met, probably. they will come out as winners, unfortunately. the extremists on both sides will come out as winnest. hamas on one hand. and the right wingers this is what they want. continue the clash and continue taking lands and continuing with their violent policies. they don't give -- i'm sorry to say it. they don't even give a consideration for the civilians. for them it's not even part of the catalyst for ending the

conflict. we need to help them. we need to help them now. >> thank you so much. we appreciate it. hope to have you both back on soon. right now congress is reviewing president obama's $3.7 billion plan to deal with the crisis at the border. what republicans are saying about the bill. this as agents report a slow down in the number of refugees coming into the united states. we have a live report coming up also ahead. >> she wasn't a particularly good vsice presidential candidate. she's a worse judge of who ought to be impeached and why. >> eric holder hits back at sarah palin's call on to impeaching president obama. 80 million americans are at risk of severe today as fridgic arctic air will drop summer temperatures as much as 20 degrees. we'll have the forecast. you can join the

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welcome back. congressional lawmakers are deciding whether they will approve president obama's emergency funding request to deal with the border crisis. so far republicans are raising strong opposition to the price tag and signaling they will demand tougher immigration laws before approving anything. john mccain pushed for expediting the return of unaccompanied minors. >> there has to be a halt to this. that's what we want. and the best way to do that is for the young people to be

returning to the country of origin and their families as tragic and as terrible aas the is. we. >> meanwhile over the weekend mark potter was with border agents as they encountered multiple immigrations alodge the rio grande. a he heartbreaking scene of a young girl traveling along. hoping to find her mom. a single piece of paper districting hdistrict i directing her to north carolina. they were sighing a slight slow down of cases like this. >> every day, ev hour every hour we were seeing young children like amy probably 250 times a day. now roughly about 150 times a day. mark potter joins me from mission, texas. have to know what happened with

the little girl. with this one piece of paper. >> a lot of people want to know that and about half our team wants to adopt her. she's grabbed a lot of people. and broken a lot of hearts. what we know is that it's likely that she will be reunited with her mother. in the cases where they can do that with the kids, they try to do that. the process -- we don't know the specifics. we're trying to dig them out right now. we're told that if past is prolonged in this case she'll be given a phone call. they'll call her -- on the paper was the mother's phone number. she'll a chance to talk to her mom and most likely try to arrange a reunion someone will fly with the girl to north carolina. we don't know the timing on that. that's likely to happen. and then she'll be give a notice to appear at the immigration court, which she'll have to defend her right to stay in the country. and probably her mother, too. that's her future. but it seems like they will be

reunited at some point. >> okay. and to the numbers. is it too early to tell if there's actually a downward trend regarding the numbers of children and people that we're seeing enter the country? >> yeah, well, it's very clear that the numbers are down. three weeks ago it was 14 to 1500 people a day being apprehended here in the rio grande valley area to the east and west. this is the hot zone. now the numbers are about 1,000 a day on average. sometimes there they're as low as 500 a day. clearly in the last week there's been a downward turn. the question is it just a temporary downturn or is it a more permanent trend? the big question being asked is this the result of the messaging from washington the get tough talk about detention and about deportation. and also, the messaging in central america, the psa's that are playing down there. urging families not sent their

kids up. they don't know yet. they need a couple of more weeks to know for sure if this is a trend. they're asking every my grant who comes across questions about that and officials in central america are asking around down there to see what people's attitudes are about that trip now to the united states. it could be as simple as the fact the beast train was derailed a couple of times last week. when it happened in january we had a downturn. they're not able to say yet that this is for sure on the way down, but you're looking at it carefully and eager to hear more about people's reaction to the messaging. >> all right. mark, thank you very much. excellent reporting. yet another day there. thank you. let me bring in washington post columnist. it's interesting the health from your column was america's attention-deficit disorder politics. i thought of you when i saw the report on the numbers possibly declining as mark potter

reported. 1,000 a day to 500. we don't know if the numbers will maintain or really what is behind it. if they start to tick down, so you this national dialogue which you say become a series of one act plays. perhaps the headline will be something else tomorrow until this unaddressed problem flairs up again. >> yeah. and i think that's a bit of a danger. people say oh, right, we've got some early numbers showing this problem is going away. let's move on. let's, you know, have a nice argument about the middle east now instead. when the crisis even if the numbers have turned around in a more fundamental way needs to be addressed, needs to be addressed with money, needs to be addressed with changes in the law, and, you know, seeking any sort of change in the law or any sort of fmoney out of the congress the way the atmosphere is now in the poisonous atmosphere is a difficult thing.

>> and atmosphere to poison even more by perhaps some politicals a aspirations. i want to play with democratic congressman joaquin castro when asked the majority, even the children need to be deported. here's what he said. >> well, i think that -- those are the decisions for an immigration judge to make. not for the president or myself or any member of congress. that's the decision the judge will make. but the point is that these folks needs to be given a chance to go to court and argue their case. i think it raises the question of who we consider to be a refugee in america in the 21 st century. that's a tough question for us. it tugs at the conscience. >> it's a multilayer answer. i want to pick up off the top it's a judge's decision to make. >> it shows why it's going to be a difficult position for president obama to be in. they're talking about changing a

2008 law. that's what the republicans want that would allow the people -- the kids coming from central america to be deported very quickly. essentially without a full fledged immigration hearing. the way would be if they came in from mexico. the president made noises about, yeah, he would be on board with that. he didn't request it and if he does you can expect a lot of democrats, a lot of immigratio s s activists to give president obama a hard time. which is why republicans want to see obama in this position. they know he's going to be swirming and having trouble with his own liberal base. they don't have any incentive to let him off the hook. >> thank you very much for your time. up next a 15-year-old reremarkable resilience just days after her family -- they were all killed. her mother, her father, four siblings. she's speaking out.

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family's home last week. allegedly by their aunt's ex-husband. hundreds of people gathered to remember them all this weekend. 600 balloons were released in honor of the family on saturday. cassidy told the crowd she was making a full recovery and quoting a passage from her favorite book, "harry potter" to try to show how she's coping. >> happiness can be found nefb the darkest of dime times if only one only remembers to turn on the light. i know, that my mom, dad, brian, emily, becca, and zack are in a much better place and i'll be able to see them again one day. >> joining me now is the spokesperson for the team and jo

jodi dillinger. thank you for joining me. angela, let me start off with you. looking at cassidy, i can barely read the words so i don't know how this child who experienced d unimaginable horror was able to stand out there. tell me about her and you know what makes her this amaze child he she is. >> to be honest with you, i am a spokesperson. they approved me to do these things. i don't personally know cassidy. i know, she's a wonderful young girl, she's very brave and strong. that's why the stay strong theme came about. you maybe know the answer better. >> ask the question again, please. >> what can you tell us about cassidy. our hearts go out to her and her family. when the first first developed and eland domestic violence and

seeing her stand over there so bravely. the natural question to know about her. how was she able to do this? >> i knew the family a little bit. i knew katy a little bit through the parks and recreational facility. that's how i fell into this. having communication and knowing them a little bit. i saw cassidy at the elementary school the other day and able to wrap my arms around her. i thought i was going to squeeze squee her a little too tight. that girl, i tell you. i see adults being strong. i see a lot of us, you know, supporting it and she's got a strong network around her. but that little girl is absolutely the strongest 15-year-old that i've ever had the blessing to know or know anything about. i'm kind of a hardened navy guy. i put things in a box and don't

get too emotional. i've been brought to tears on this multiple times. >> tell me about the go fund me site you helped set up. >> sure. it was kind of an accident. sergeant beck, which was the original officer that was through the door after the thing happened. we were in a meeting that he ran out of to go do that. we talked a little bit. i'm good friends with him. we talked a little bit i was check on him and the horrific thing he had gone through walking in on this. he came in the next day and he was like it's an ongoing investigation i can't do that. when fallen officers go down we use go fund me. he's like can you do it? i'm a computer geek sometimes and with facebook and different things like that. i want people to know it took 10 minutes, 10 minutes, i'm sorry

of my time to set the site up and go live. and as i sit in front of you right now, we're at $2 270,620 for ten minute of my time. and absolutely incredible. we're going to keep the site up. there's a trust fund set up now i think angela is going to mention. you probably have the information on already it's linked together with the trust fund now. there's funds from both sides if people want to mail checks in and stuff they can. >> we thank your effort and thank you for everything you're doing with cassidy. she's going to need as many people in her corner supporting her as possible. we know that her bravery possibly saved the life of her grandparents, according to police, this individual may have been on his way there to their home. thank you, both. we'll make sure we put up the information. coming up. two possible republican presidential contenders governor

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welcome back. we're following new details surrounding sergeant bowe bergdahl just six weeks after being released from captivity in afghanistan. the army says the final phase of his reintegration program is

complete. and he could return to active duty. it also means for the first time military officials will question bergdahl directly about why he left his post back in 2009. nbc chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski joins me now. we understand this could include a desk assignment? >> that's probably what's going to happen there at ft. sam houston. pending this military investigation that you mentioned, tamron, into the circumstances surrounding his disappearance from his base in eastern afghanistan more than five years ago. now he's returning to the rank of his fellow soldiers today. but he's going to be sort of in a somewhat of a bubble while this investigation is under way. and although he has all the privileges n rights of every other active duty soldier, it's not clear whether, including the fact that he'd be able to leave the base when he's off duty and go wherever he wants to go, talk to whomever he wants to talk to.

but we understand that he is being advised not to talk about his disappearance from his base with anybody else but the investigators. and certainly at this point, they are advising him not to talk to the media about his time in captivity and his subsequent reintegration. you know, they are looking into the possibility, number one, that he deserted. that appears to be unlikely because there's no indication he would have left the military forever. but certainly he -- the initial investigation five years ago found that he left his base voluntarily, which at the very least would be awol. he's got some legal problems ahead of him, but nobody thinks that it will end in his incarceration. in fact, the book, if you talk to many army and dod leaders, is that once this is all completed, he'll probably be convinced to voluntarily leave the service or

could be forced out of the service, not dishonorably discharged but a less than honorable discharge because, quite frankly, the military is glad to have him back but now it appears they'll be just as glad to have him leave the military once and for all. >> what about the natural concern he's interact with other soldiers, their opinions of him. some have very strong ones and his, you know, he's being told not to discuss the obvious here, the things that i think most people would want to ask him in any kind of interaction if it's a desk job or just passing him in the hallway. >> that's always possible. quite frankly, he's been in this reintegration process for six weeks. if the officials thought at ft. sam houston that there would be any backlash, that he was in any kind of physical danger, they wouldn't allow this. they feel pretty confident he's safe but now they've got this military investigation that they'd like to button up as

quickly as possible and close this chapter in the army's and bowe bergdahl's history. >> mick, thank you. it's been six weeks since bowe bergdahl was released from taliban captivity. the investigation is still ongoing. so should bowe bergdahl be allowed back into active duty? go to newsnation.msnbc.com to cast that vote. there's a lot going on this morning. here some are things we thought you should know. the dea has reportedly launched an investigation into prescription drug abuse in the nfl according to the "daily news." the investigation began after a group of former players sued the league saying they were not warned of the possible side effects of taking medication prescribed by team doctors. the washington, d.c., city council is considering legislation that would prohibit schools from expelling or suspending pre-kindergarten students except in rare circumstances. the move comes in response to a recent report that showed 1 out of 8 pre-k students were

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