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homes of hamas leaders. butt civilians tip to pay the price. ayman mohyeldin was witness to an attack where children were at play, four died all between the ages of 9 and 11 years all, all reportedly cousins. and three more children were injured in the attack. i'm joined by ayman in gaza. from tel-aviv, martin fletcher. ayman, first to you, i heard the call from you and your producer as you witnessed this. tell me about the children and t parents and what you witnessed. >> reporter: it was a scene that was really indescribable. it was very, very painful to watch. we were at our hotel -- a hotel that was full of international journalists down by the gaza sea port at about 4:00 p.m.

we heard two loud explosions and quickly saw smoke billowing down in the direction of one of the huts that was on the water's front line. then we started seeing a chaotic scene of children running down there and pulling bodies out of the scene of explosion. what we learned immediately afterwards is it was kids playing there. in fact, just minutes before we entered the hotel returning back to our hotel, i had actually stopped and started playing with these little boys in front of our hotel kicking a soccer ball around. we went our separate ways and then minutes later we heard the explosions. it turned out that the boys we were speaking to right before we went inside were those very same kids killed. when they were put in the ambulance, taken to the hospital where we spent the day yesterday, we had a chance to see one of the mothers as she arrived at the hospital and was walking down asking everyone, where is my son, where is my son? she wasn't at that time aware what had happened.

then as she entered the area of the hospital where the bodies were, another relative came up and told her, pray for your son, your son is dead. and she completely broke down, started wailing. it was a very emotional scene. she could barely stand. other relatives for the next 20 minutes. there were four kids, their parents showing up, their brothers, other relatives showing up to the hospital one by one, learning the news that one of their sons had been killed. and these four individuals, four young boys from the ages of 9 to 11 were all cousins, first cousins from one family, playing down by the water. they broke down, the parents broke down, started questioning what was happening. there was a tremendous amount of anger and grief, a lot of crying, wailing. this was happening in front of pretty much the entire international media. they kept asking, where is the world? why is the world not doing anything to stop this? that is the scene that unfolded for the better part of an hour, andrea. the bodies have been released. the families took the bodies. they have been buried.

there was a quick funeral a short while ago in gaza. >> just breathtaking, the loss of family. martin fletcher, we know the political context is completely different, but what the world is seeing is a very well-defended israel and people going into bomb shelters on one side and the hamas leaders having reje rejected the cease-fire that israel agreed to yesterday are getting the emotional and political benefit, if you will, of the horror of the deaths of their population. how long can israel withstand this kind of international pressure? >> reporter: well, that's right. first of all, i have to say it was very hard listening to ayman's report about how harrowing that was. and what struck me was when he said that the mothers were calling out to the international community, where are you, where are you, why don't you stop this? i think with all the sympathy the israelis will have for those

children and their families, the sentiment here is, why didn't hamas accept the cease-fire? then there would be no shelling? hamas continues to fire rockets at israel and israel continues to respond with its rockets trying to target those rocket launching sites. we don't know what was in that port, why israel hit that area. but there are many civilian losses in gaza. the yununited nations says that% of the dead in gaza, more than 200 now, are actually civilians. and many of those are children and unfortunately now more children. when you ask me how long can idz real stand up to the international pressure, i have to say the sense here is there is not much international pressure at this moment on israel to stop its attacks on gaza. the israelis feel that the world and the stand is israel needs to defend itself. when prime minister says, we have 6 million in bomb shelters, in america that's like 200 million. if your country was being shelled wouldn't you want your

government to respond? people here at least get that and they accept it. there's a strong push, a strong feeling among the people of israel that for once and for all israel has to end the problem from gaza, the problem being rockets fired by hamas at israel. if anything, there's growing support here for israel taking greater measures, including stepped-up air attacks with these up fortunately terrible results. and of course the growing possibility of a ground invasion. in fact, just within the last hour and a half, there was a telephone call, a telephone poll, from israeli government cabinet members asking for permission to call up another 8,000 army reserves. and the government agreed. so another 8,000 reserves are being called up in israel, making about 50,000 army reserves now joining the regular army, which is massing on the gaza border for the order for a green light for the order to invade gaza. i hate to use the phrase i've been using for two days now, but

it really is a race for time, what comes first, a cease-fire or some kind of ground invasion of gaza, andrea. >> i know tony blair was involved in attempting to resurrect some diplomacy. the egyptians were trying, as we know. mahmoud abbas was heading to cairo for meetings. but as long as hamas leaders are not engain gauged, this isn't going anywhere yet. >> that's right. but it does appear that hamas leaders are involved. there's a report that one of the heads of hamas security is also involved in the talks in cairo. so there is some communication we're told between mahmoud abbas the palestinian president in the west bank and hamas in gaza. but it is not clear how serious that cooperation is. there's also the question of the leader of hamas outside gaza. he's apparently going to

istanbul where palestinian leaders in the west bank may meet him. there is stuff going on. there is some movement towards resurrecting the egyptian proposal. this time to some extent hamas is involved in that, which is one optimistic sign. but again, it's still far from any real proposal. it does appear, though, that the cease-fire proposal is not dead at this stage. >> my thanks to ayman mohyeldin and you, martin. ayman and your team, i know that you are doing your job and reporting this as matter of factually as you can, ayman, but it is very painful for you and paul your producer and all the rest of you. our thanks for the job you're doing, joextraordinary job you' doing in a war zone. for more on this, i'm joined by jeffrey goldberg columnist. jeff, you and i have covered the middle east for many years. this is really coming to a very bad pass, and i don't see what

the solution short term is. >> right. you know, we've been at -- we've been seeing these fights between hamas and israel once every two years now. this is the third round. there are people obviously in israel who believe there's a military solution to this. there is no military solution, of course. there's ohm a political solution. the leadership of hamas, it's hard to define their policy. if you fire rockets from your territory into another country, you have to expecting that that country is going to fire back. when that fire is much more militarily powerful than you, it doesn't make a lot of sense. but hamas seems intent on continuing this, rejecting the cease-fire offer, and there are a lot of politicians in israel who are are arguing that israel can go in to gaza, find all these rockets, find these launchers, and somehow eradicate this terror threat. i don't think that's practical

either. >> it doesn't seem that israel has the intelligence in this exchange that they've had in the past. they don't seem to know how to pinpoint and target the rocket launchers. >> it's unclear. we don't know yet everything that's been destroyed on the ground so it's hard to know. but you're absolutely right. when israel withdrew from gaza in 2005, it obviously also sort of took out a lot of its eyes, a lot of its assets. so it doesn't know as much as it knows, say, on the west bank. >> there is an argument from the hamas supporters and the leaders that they're not going to agree to a cease-fire unless they get more of what they're bargaining for, the airport, access to the closures that constantly stop them from getting access. israel says to smuggled weapons, they say to needed supplies. what is the accuracy there? >> well, i mean, it's not a very useful way of getting what you want from israel by firing

rockets at its civilians. hamas is in a very, very weak position politically. the egyptian government is an enemy of hamas now. egypt controls the southern border of gaza and the egyptian government sees hamas as an a adversa adversary. hamas is more isolated from iran. obviously syria is tied up in its own problems. so hamas doesn't have a great bargaining position here. it is isolated even in the arab world. at a certain point they might sue for peace without about getting all of these condition cans and then another round of fighting later when they're stronger. >> secretary kerry, who said he would go to the region when necessary and seems to be waiting for that opportunity, he's meeting today with the president and the vice president to discuss what to do next on iran. those talks coming to conclusion, and most likely will be extended past the deadline.

but he's briefing the white house right now today on that. i don't have any doubt they're going to extend. both sides are interested in extending. but right now the iranians are protecting that they've offered a lot and trying to sort of gain the upper ground in the public relations battle, if you will. >> right. they're good at public relations. you saw the foreign minister a few days ago. they are right now arguing that they're offering something substantial, a freeze. basically, they'll freeze their program in place. obviously what the west has sought all along is a reduction obviously in their enrichment capabilities. and there's a huge gap. there remains a huge gap. the west wants them to dismantle many thousands of their centrifuges. we haven't seen any sign that's happening. you're exactly right. it's in everybody's interest to just keep this going for another six months. i think that's what's going to end up happening. >> jeffrey goldberg, thank you

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she was a presidential candidate. >> it's not a bad thing, chris alyssa, to be asked these questions. >> jon stewart said at some point, couldn't you just say, there have been all these books written, all of these stories, couldn't you just say "i'm not running" and a lot of it would go away? the aps is of course. she's not going to do that, but i think the best way to say it is she is planning to run for president. she has not said she's running, but everything, including her rhetoric, suggests she's running. >> and she also has had bumps along the road on this book tour. let's talk about that, ann. your colleague phil rucker has a new story about the book tour and speeches and things that have come up. >> he's reporting just a few minutes ago that the university of buffalo paid her $275,000 for one of those speeches last fall.

and also attached that she attached a whole bunch of conditions to giving the speech, including my favorite which is a presidential quality teleprompter and screen and operator and so forth. you know, that's the sort of thing that jon stewart was having fun with her about on the show last night, saying, you know, do you prefer to cause traffic or get out of it? what shape of home office do you like? and that sort of thing. and she gave as good as she got. she played along, which she does very well. let's take a look at some of that. >> do you enjoy constant nonstop criticism? >> enjoy is probably the wrong word. >> expect? >> expect, survive, live through. it just sort of comes with the territory. >> it does come with the territory. >> indeed. >> so it sounds to me, like if i may, you've declared for

presidency. >> and susan, according to the waf "washington post," phil rucker's reporting there's a lot that goes into some of these speech contacts, which is what you would expect, which is what any of these big deal speakers, especially potential presidential candidates, would be putting into their contracts. but it certainly is not what you want to see on the front page of the "washington post." >> i think that's right. an example of how nothing will be private with hillary clinton. who knew there was anything we didn't already know about hillary clinton, we will find out about it during the presidential campaign. as you say, this is like the standard kind of thing that big name speakers demand. it is not the standard kind of thing that, say, a competitor in the iowa caucuses demand. if you're going to the new hampshire primary and campaigning you will not get the right to say which moderator will ask you questions. that will be a different game entirely. >> in fact, chris siz cilliza, let's listen to this.

>> i'm glad to be here today with you. i wanted to be here today with you because you are people who can't wait for change. you are the ones who know we have to jump in and jump in now and make our own change. that's why i'm here today. >> now, chris,s i know she has she is not running. we all know that elizabeth warren has made that declaration. she has a book tour and she is a prodigious fund-raiser. and if there's anyone, should hillary clinton decide not to run or falter, if there's anyone primed and ready to go, it's elizabeth warren. >> i take her at her word that she wouldn't run against hillary. buff i think she should think about it. she occupies the economic populist energy in the party, and that's very powerful. i'm not sure it's powerful enough to beat hillary clinton. but it's power offul. if hillary clinton doesn't run, i find 0 it hard to believe

elizabeth warren wouldn't run. people say, well, she can wait 8 or 16 years. she's in her mid to late 60s. now, that is -- we elect people at that age all the time. but 16 years from now, it might not be the time. so i think that if hillary clinton is not in, my guess is elizabeth warren takes a very strong look and my feeling would be she probably would run. >> and if anyone says that a freshman senator can't declare for president -- >> right. we've got proof for you in the relatively recent past. >> exactly. anne gearen? >> she certainly has every bit of qualifications that barack obama had when he ran and knows it. but she also potentially represents the populous challenged from the left that hillary clinton, should she run, is very watchful about now. you saw her in it the jon stewart interview last night neatly pivoting to talking about income inequality she went from

her own gaffe to income inequality. >> which he says is the best proof she is running. >> i don't expect elizabeth railroad warren to challenge hillary clinton. but i think there will be a challenge, maybe bernie sanders. there is a feeling among the most energized democrats that she may not be with them entirely, she's too tied to wall street and to the establishment. while i think it's hard to mention anybody but hilary clinton being nominated by the democratic party, i'm not sure it's a total 0ly free ride. >> chris, anne, susan, thank you so much. it was a fitting farewell to the 14-time all-star player derek jeter in his last summer classic. the standing ovations for the retiring yankee captain kept coming in minneapolis last night from the first at-bat to his final good-bye. leading off, jeter hit a double and then scored the first run. helping the american league team to a win and home field

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pretty devastating. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, it talks about mishandled anthrax, mishandled bird flu virus samples and of course we know about the smallpox vials found at the nih lap in bethesda, maryland, rs and date back to 1954. that's not the cdc problem, but it deals with government labs that deal with these toxic, very dangerous bioagents. by one estimate, there's about 1500 labs in the united states, some government owned and run, some not, nobody has a good firm handle on how many labs there are and we learned today there's really no government oversight of all of these labs. no strict one set of criteria and protocols that everybody should be following. that's clearly one item that has come out of these hearings that many people believe must be addressed for the cdc director tom frieden was not in any way trying to duck responsibility. he said that the cdc has developed a pattern of not

complacency but perhaps a lax attitude toward safety, something he says you might even expect when somebody is dealing with these pathogens day in a day out, year after year, they become a bit complacent. he says it's become unacceptable. they must immediately deal with this culture. that they need to get to the bottom of it and fix it. and the usda has conducted its own inspections of cdc facilities over the last 18 months and also found troubling patterns dealing with this exact issue. so clearly the cdc right now after having closed two laboratories in atlanta as they try to get to the bottom of this and ordering a top to bottom review of all cdc labs nationwide and say that it ae's entirly possible that disciplinary action is possible. cdc trying to take action. >> this is just one exchange between pennsylvania congressman tim murphy and frieden. >> this is a ziploc bag, and i have to think, what in heaven's

name would go through the mind of a scientist thinking a ziploc bag is enough to protect someone from anthrax. >> many of the issues that are mentioned in the findings relate to what was done with the material that was believed to have been inactivated. the core error there was the failure to -- >> but dr. frieden, this is like saying, i didn't know the gun was loaded but somebody got shot. you should always assume it is. for someone to say, i didn't think the anthrax was live isn't acceptable. >> it's important to put that into context because what he's talking about there is, they put those samples into a plastic baggy after they were convin convinced -- they were wrong -- that in fact the anthrax samples had been killed. we know now that they were in fact probably alive. >> tom, thanks so much. and coming up, a medical

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welcome back. could a trip to the eye doctor some day become also a way to screen for alzheimer's disease? researchers say that looking at changes in the retina and even alter raigss in your sense of smell could become early alzheimer's detection aids. these and other findings at the annual international alzheimer's conference in colin hagen presented that lifestyles can alter the trajectory of the disease. dr. richard o'brien is a specialist in alzheimer's research, now the chair of the neurology department at duke school of medicine and joins me from raleigh, north carolina. thanks for being with us today. want to talk about a lot of exciting research. some of it you're probably very familiar with but was unveiled at this conference. first of all, the eye test.

how promising do you think that might be? >> hi, andrea. so the eye test is essentially looking for a protein called a.call ed am alloyd. am alloyd is to dementia is what cholesterol is to heart disease. the higher the level in the brain the more likely you are to develop dementia. it turns out that doctors have been able to see this am alloyd in the eye as a surrogate for am alloyd in the brain, and that's a very promising breakthrough. >> what about this smell test, that you can lose your sense of smell or a declining sense of smell could be another indication of the plaque or tangles in the brain that are indicators of alzheimer's? >> that's been known for some time, you know. the data on that is a little bit iffier. but, yes, it's well known that people with alzheimer's lose their sense of smell. i think the eye test is a little more exciting. >> now, i read some of the research that you had put out

earlier as well, that lifestyle is a really big factor here. let's talk about physical exercise, nutrition, managing cardiovascular issues and heart risking factors and just using your brain. do you want to take them down the line there, what about exercise and what muscle -- just using your muscles might have an impact in reducing the onset of the disease? or masking the disease entirely? >> yes, andrea. the two big risk factors for developing dementia or alzheimer's disease are increasing age and having a family member with the disease. there's nothing that you can do about either of those. but luckily there are several environmental things that can significantly reduce your risk of developing these diseases. one is education. many, many studies have shown people who graduate from college have a much lower rate of dementia than people who don't. i think the thought is, when

you're young and you learn all these things you develop a lot of connections in your brain and that makes you resistant to disease. what about people who are middle aged that can't go back to clothiollege college? the data on physical exercise is overwhelming as a way to keep your brain healthy. a lot of my patients think it's a matter of increasing blood flow to the brain. but what the science suggests is that when you exercise the big muscles of your legs or arms they release things into the blood stream that are healthy for all your organs, especially the brain. and the data on it is overwhelming, and there was just a recent study from the international meeting that confirmed that. the second thing about cardiovascular health, vard yoe vascular disease doesn't cause always hiexers. but if you're 75 or 80 years old, many people have a lot of

alzheimer's-type changes in their brain. it's like people who have blockage fz their coronary arteries but don't have heart attacks. these people, surprisingly, many of them can do very well. however, if something else happens to their brain, they have a stroke, they develop significant blockages in the arteries, that is enough to tip them over and make them demented, which means their memory fails and things of that sort. so while we can't change the alzheimer's part of the equation, if you get rid of what we call the secondary processes, like stroke or atherosclerosis, the alzheimer's stays quiet and doesn't bother anybody. >> briefly,s i also read in some of the research that in autopsies they find people with the plaques and tangles in the brain who never exhibited the symptoms of alzheimer's. so it doesn't necessarily have to manifest itself if you handle these other lifestyle issues.

>> right. if you take care of the lifestyle issues, keep your cholesterol down, eat the right types of foods, and exercise, you can have these alzheimer's changes in your brain, yet you can be completely normal into your 80s and 90s. it's not a 100% guarantee, but there's been several studies recently that have shown the dementia rate is declining and the reason for that is higher education, more exercise, and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors like cholesterol and high blood pressure. so i think it's a very hopeful message. >> indeed. it's great to see you. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks. >> glad to hear some good news. and pulitzt pulitzer prize has died at the age of 95 at his home 0 in williamstown, massachusetts. burns taught at williams college, was the author of more than 20 books including a

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so which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? carishris cilliza is with us. the president and vice president are going to be talking about what to do about iran and many other things. >> congressional hispanic caucus going, meegtd with house democrats later. look, it is not a secret that not much else legislatively is

going to happen if something does -- broadly, if something does happen, i do think something could happen to 0 address the situation at the border. the question is, can president obama keep his entire democratic coalition together? it's harder and harder for him to do 0 that. we saw martin o'malley who wants to run for president to break with the president and walk it back. it's harder to do that the further you get into a presidency. it's hard when your job approval numbers including on immigration are not terribly good. i think this is a let's figure out what we can get behind. the president has obviously put his proposal out there, needing to rally his part yy behind his proposal. >> on the republican side, we've got chris christie testing the waters in iowa tomorrow. >> just happens to be wanting to go to iowa, andrea.

who knew? >> i guess, does this indicate that he thinks he's passed the george washington bridge investigation and scandal? >> yeah, i think it does. look, terry brand stad is up for reelection, but the republican governor of iowa, nobody thinks he's going to lose. there are plenty of other places chris christie is going to go if he wanted to raise money. he has gone many places i would say as republican governors' association chair. he knows what going to iowa means. he gets that. there's no smoking gun. i'm moving on. i think he dismissed it i believe in the "new york times" sort of the focus of east coast democrats. i'm not sure it's limited to them. i do think it will come up again. i think if he does run and i think he probably will. i think his opponents will use it in subtle and not so subtle ways. yeah, this is what was supposed to happen in january, which is he starts making the moves that

say to everyone, i'm running for president. it's been delayed by about six months. like we said, side tracked but not derailed. i think that's where we're 0 at. >> i think he probably got signals that jeb bush, the other mainstream republican possibility, is considering not running, and therefore there's more running room for chris christie. >> i think he's just moving forward. i would say a lot of these people, with hillary clinton on the one side making it clear she's running, jeb bush is much less certain. i would say jeb bush is much less of a strong front-runner even if he does run than hillary clinton. i think he's probably too moderate on things like common core and immigration to win the nomination, at least at this point. or if he moves his positions, which frankly i don't think he wants to do 0. >> carissa liz saturday, thank you. that does it for us. speaking of republicans, tomorrow on the show, arizona senator john mccain. remember, follow the show online, on facebook and on twit.

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. hillary clinton says she prefers a home office. the good news is she can have one whether she wins or loses. just ask mitt romney. >> former secretary of state hillary clinton took to the daily show to promote her new book. >> she did very well. obviously a lot of questions persist. >> let me ask you, do you like commuting to work, or do you like a home office? do you have a favorite shape for that home office? >> the world is so complicated, the fewer corners that you can have the behr. >> we republicans have no problem with people getting rich. >> do you prefer to sit in traffic or cause it? >> i really hate to cause traffic. >> she may be keeping her cards hidden but the super pac that was created in her name, whole

other story. ready for hillary raked in $2.5 million from april to june, a lot of dough and its strongest fund-raising period to date. and just this morning we learned that sergeant bowe bergdahl has lawyered up, hired an attorney now that the military is moving ahead with its investigation into the bizarre circumstances surrounding his capture. his attorney eugene fiddle is a professor of at yale law. he'll join me later for a live interview. sad news abroad. hours after israel warned its residents in gaza to flee, four children were killed while playing. an nbc news crew witnessed the strike and rushed to a nearby hospital finding anguish. >> eer