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i'm jim sciutto. and this is "the lead." >> what exactly are they trying to hide? >> the world lead, president obama accusing pro-russian rebels of tampering with the crash site? ukraine and pressuring putin to get those rebels to pack off. is this the type of missile believed to have brought down flight 17? how many of these systems are out there? how easy would it be for terrorists to get their hands on them? >>> also in world news, not all those killed in the israeli-palestinian conflict are israeli or palestinian. american citizens are now dying while fighting for the israelis as the consequences from gaza hit home on u.s. shores. hello, i'm jim sciutto filling in nor jake tapper. we begin with the world lead. bodies used as the bargaining chips after days of dispute over how to handle the remains from the crash of malaysia airlines flight 17, pro-russian rebel who's controlled the scene have finally allowed a train to pull away this train carrying almost 200 bodies out of the 298 people who likel
i'm jim sciutto. and this is "the lead." >> what exactly are they trying to hide? >> the world lead, president obama accusing pro-russian rebels of tampering with the crash site? ukraine and pressuring putin to get those rebels to pack off. is this the type of missile believed to have brought down flight 17? how many of these systems are out there? how easy would it be for terrorists to get their hands on them? >>> also in world news, not all those killed in the...
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it's what you say that makes news, jim sciutto, and also what you don't say.oint about how vladimir putin and how really he has said so little. and he has the power to say to these separatists, stop. and he hasn't. >> reporter: yeah. and even when he has said things, and this is something you'll hear from u.s. officials, that in recent weeks, the words coming out of moscow have been somewhat more conciliatory than they were in the past. but the actions certainly did not change on the ground. and one of those actions, of course, extremely telling here, that those missile systems which u.s. officials believe brought down this jet, were transferred from russian territory to these pro russian rebels just in the days before this plane was taken down. so even as president putin was saying a few nicer things in the last couple weeks, you know, it didn't change, and we're seeing the results of that in that wreckage on the ground in eastern ukraine. >> what about the fact that we know that obviously there's a possibility that russians or russian official might have bee
it's what you say that makes news, jim sciutto, and also what you don't say.oint about how vladimir putin and how really he has said so little. and he has the power to say to these separatists, stop. and he hasn't. >> reporter: yeah. and even when he has said things, and this is something you'll hear from u.s. officials, that in recent weeks, the words coming out of moscow have been somewhat more conciliatory than they were in the past. but the actions certainly did not change on the...
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jim sciutto, thank you so much. i want to tell our viewers right now that the white house says that president obama is aware of the reports that a malaysian airlines flight is down. that is mh17. that's a flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. 295 people on board. 280 passengers, 15 crew members. we have fran townsend now with us on the phone, national security analyst. and fran, i have to say, there are a number of national security concerns raised by even these early reports. >> reporter: absolutely, john. you know, so the american intelligence and law enforcement community sources tell us they're doing all the things you might expect them to do. they take nothing for granted. you know, i agree with what jim has said and the likelihood that this may be a plane that was shot down by one of, you know, either on the russian or ukrainian side. but right now, what law enforcement intelligence is doing are going back, looking to see if there was any intelligence that would have suggested a direct or specific threat to t
jim sciutto, thank you so much. i want to tell our viewers right now that the white house says that president obama is aware of the reports that a malaysian airlines flight is down. that is mh17. that's a flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. 295 people on board. 280 passengers, 15 crew members. we have fran townsend now with us on the phone, national security analyst. and fran, i have to say, there are a number of national security concerns raised by even these early reports. >>...
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i'm jim sciutto. this is the lead. the world lead. bad time to book a flight to tel aviv. the u.s. government banning all flights to and from israel's main airport after rocket fire makes it far too dangerous. >>> also in world news, allegations of tampering with evidence and disrespecting victims' bodies. why hasn't at international coalition stepped in yet to remove control of the flight 17 crash site from those who may have shot down the plane? >> if there is one person who could have survived, it's our daughter. >> just like every flight 17 family, they don't know the for sure if their loved one's body has been recovered. their frustration, even their flickering hope that somehow, she's alive. hello, i'm jim sciutto filling in again for jake tapper and beginning today with our world lead. two major stories calling into question how much of the world is actually safe to fly over anymore. with trauma still fresh after a passenger plane was shot out of the sky over ukraine, the u.s. government is now
i'm jim sciutto. this is the lead. the world lead. bad time to book a flight to tel aviv. the u.s. government banning all flights to and from israel's main airport after rocket fire makes it far too dangerous. >>> also in world news, allegations of tampering with evidence and disrespecting victims' bodies. why hasn't at international coalition stepped in yet to remove control of the flight 17 crash site from those who may have shot down the plane? >> if there is one person who...
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let's begin with chief national security correspondent jim sciutto in washington with the latest on the take-down, if you will, of this airliner. what are you hearing? >> i've been speaking all day with senior ukrainian officials. they've had a consistent message that this plane was shot down and that it was brought down by pro-russian separatists backed by russia and in contact they say with russian officials throughout. they released transcripts of what ukrainian officials say were intercepted communications by telephone between proposal-russian separatists and a russian intelligence agent as this plane was shot down. the malaysian jet fell from the sky over eastern ukraine in a fireball and a black cloud. pieces of burning debris visible, trailing gray smoke. on the ground, wreckage littered the landscape spread over a large area. evidence ukrainian officials tell cnn that the boeing triple 7 came apart at high altitude. ukrainian officials quickly blamed a missile strike by pro-russian separatists. the foreign minister telling cnn "it is as clear as day. they have been hunting our p
let's begin with chief national security correspondent jim sciutto in washington with the latest on the take-down, if you will, of this airliner. what are you hearing? >> i've been speaking all day with senior ukrainian officials. they've had a consistent message that this plane was shot down and that it was brought down by pro-russian separatists backed by russia and in contact they say with russian officials throughout. they released transcripts of what ukrainian officials say were...
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let's begin with our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. he's following the investigation for us. jim, what is the very latest. >> wolf, today, the case building against russia of some russian involvement in this shootdown. president obama calling the shootdown the direct result of rebel activity in eastern ukraine, activity he said that would be impossible without russian support. pentagon spokesman admiral john kirby saying "it's strange credit you'llity that rebels could have launched the missile that brought down this jet without russian help," resulting in as the president said a tragedy of unspeakable typhoon. >> 24 thundershowers after flight 17 slammed into the ground, international observers just arriving at the crash scene today in rebel-controlled territory. where they were they were far from welcome. >> we were greeted almost with hostility. so it wasn't a visit that was done under the best conditions and we hope to continue again tomorrow. >> reporter: as world leaders demand an international investigation -- the u.s. is already
let's begin with our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. he's following the investigation for us. jim, what is the very latest. >> wolf, today, the case building against russia of some russian involvement in this shootdown. president obama calling the shootdown the direct result of rebel activity in eastern ukraine, activity he said that would be impossible without russian support. pentagon spokesman admiral john kirby saying "it's strange credit you'llity that rebels...
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want to bring in our jim sciutto. want to bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. one of the things the spokesman from the pentagon said earlier, said it strained credulity they could do this without russian assistance, it was a fairly sophisticated device used. although they certainly don't foe who pushed the trigger. >> that was exactly the line i was thinking, anderson, the most significant from that press conference. follows on with what the president was saying earlier, this is not an accident, in the president's words, that they can't shoot -- the separatists couldn't shoot down the plane without sophisticated assistance. that assistance coming from russia. then on the floor of the security council, saying the systems are complicated, it's likely the separatists would have needed russian help, russian training. and now in addition to that, anderson, you have the u.s. intelligence community saying it's their working theory at this point that that missile system itself, the actual launcher,
want to bring in our jim sciutto. want to bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. one of the things the spokesman from the pentagon said earlier, said it strained credulity they could do this without russian assistance, it was a fairly sophisticated device used. although they certainly don't foe who pushed the trigger. >> that was exactly the line i was thinking, anderson, the most significant from that press conference. follows on with what the president was...
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jim sciutto, let's talk about this incident in ukraine. although we have no shortage of big stories to talk about worldwide. is there evidence that the united states government finds credible that pro-russian separatists shot down this plane? >> the answer from the united states government perspective is no. they're saying they don't have conclusive evidence yet from the ukrainian government perspective, i've been speaking to officials there, they say they have evidence. i'll give you what they give. one is that they believe that it was a russian buk so-called buk system used to shoot down this plane in part because separatists can captured just such a weapon system in a ukrainian military base and bragged about it and russian tv aired pictures of them in possession of this buk weapon system. doesn't mean they fired it today but this is the evidence. >> they have the capability to do so. >> so they had the weapon that this weapon has the range to hit a plane at that the altitude, and three, another point that the officials made to me, that
jim sciutto, let's talk about this incident in ukraine. although we have no shortage of big stories to talk about worldwide. is there evidence that the united states government finds credible that pro-russian separatists shot down this plane? >> the answer from the united states government perspective is no. they're saying they don't have conclusive evidence yet from the ukrainian government perspective, i've been speaking to officials there, they say they have evidence. i'll give you...
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i'm jim sciutto. i turn you over now to wolf blitzer live from jerusalem in blitzer live from jerusalem in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> happening now, a situation room" special report. airlines around the world cancel flights to tel aviv as a rocket strikes frightfully close to the airport. >>> human cost. the number of dead in gaza keeps climbing with dozens more palestinians reported killed as pressure grows for a cease-fire. >>> missile evidence. holes in the wreckage of malaysia flight 17's fuselage show extensive explosion and shrapnel damage. we have new information about what u.s. intelligence has now learned. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in jerusalem. you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following the break is news, dramatic new international fallout from the fighting between israel and hamas. it's raging on despite increased efforts to try to broker a cease-fire. [ explosion ] >> continued
i'm jim sciutto. i turn you over now to wolf blitzer live from jerusalem in blitzer live from jerusalem in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> happening now, a situation room" special report. airlines around the world cancel flights to tel aviv as a rocket strikes frightfully close to the airport. >>> human cost. the number of dead in gaza keeps climbing with dozens more palestinians reported killed as pressure grows for a cease-fire....
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back with me now is our chief national correspondent jim sciutto. jim, thanks for joining us again. what do u.s. officials belief happened here and who do they believe is responsible? >> well, they'll give an answer to the first question, not to the second question. they believe the plane was taken down by a surface-to-air missile for two reasons. one, u.s. assets in the region detected a missile system locking on the radar of a missile system locking on to this jet before it disappeared. and two, detected the heat signature of the missile going from the ground up to the air and striking this aircraft. the step that u.s. officials will not take is who shot this plane down. and indeed, where it came from. was it the russian side of the border or the ukrainian side of the border. that is a step that ukrainian officials are willing to take. and they present a fair amount of evidence to indicate that one of the most convincing, a recorded conversation between what they say is a pro-russian militant in the eastern ukraine speaking to a russian military or intelligence official talking ab
back with me now is our chief national correspondent jim sciutto. jim, thanks for joining us again. what do u.s. officials belief happened here and who do they believe is responsible? >> well, they'll give an answer to the first question, not to the second question. they believe the plane was taken down by a surface-to-air missile for two reasons. one, u.s. assets in the region detected a missile system locking on the radar of a missile system locking on to this jet before it disappeared....
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they cannot confirm them but do not have reason to doubt them. >> jim sciutto, thank you.ary analyst rick francona. you're familiar with this missile system. we heard from the pentagon today that it is relatively sophisticated, that they believe there must have been or in all likelihood, there was some sort of training by russian forces where that took place, when that took place is unclear. how much training would somebody need? >> well, for the similar u.s. system, we put someone through six months of training. and this is a four-man crew, so it's not just one person being trained. you have to have somebody that can run this, so you got -- >> four people all who have different roles to play. >> right, one will run the radar, one will run the missile, one will run the other radar. there are several systems that have to be run. this is a sophisticated system. what we're seeing and jim brought up good points, we're watching one unit. 1/4th of the system. that's the key part the transporter, launcher and radar. we're not seeing the acre s session radar. when they turned this
they cannot confirm them but do not have reason to doubt them. >> jim sciutto, thank you.ary analyst rick francona. you're familiar with this missile system. we heard from the pentagon today that it is relatively sophisticated, that they believe there must have been or in all likelihood, there was some sort of training by russian forces where that took place, when that took place is unclear. how much training would somebody need? >> well, for the similar u.s. system, we put someone...
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jim sciutto is joining us.t the russian connection if there was a russian connection to takedown of this plane. >> i think you have everything but the jury verdict from the perspective of u.s. officials. they have established based on their intelligence that this was a russian made missile system that came from ukrainian side of the border fired from rebel controlled areas and in fact russians supplied the weapons system and trained ukrainians on how to use the weapons system. the only question they are looking into is whether russians were present when the missile was launched. the case is built very strongly and very quickly from the u.s. perspective leaving very little question at least from the perspective of u.s. intelligence agencies and u.s. officials that russia bears some of the responsibility for this. >> where do we go from here, ambassador? it is haeartbreaking. you speak to family members and see what's going on. they haven't recovered all of the bodies there. what's next in this whole miserable si
jim sciutto is joining us.t the russian connection if there was a russian connection to takedown of this plane. >> i think you have everything but the jury verdict from the perspective of u.s. officials. they have established based on their intelligence that this was a russian made missile system that came from ukrainian side of the border fired from rebel controlled areas and in fact russians supplied the weapons system and trained ukrainians on how to use the weapons system. the only...
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i'm jim sciutto. this is the lead. the world lead. bad time to book a flight to tel aviv. the u.s.ng all flights to and from israel's main airport after rocket fire makes it far too dangerous. >>> also in world news, allegations of tampering with evidence and disrespecting victims' bodies. why hasn't at international coalition stepped in yet to remove control of the flight 17 crash site from those who may have shot down the plane?
i'm jim sciutto. this is the lead. the world lead. bad time to book a flight to tel aviv. the u.s.ng all flights to and from israel's main airport after rocket fire makes it far too dangerous. >>> also in world news, allegations of tampering with evidence and disrespecting victims' bodies. why hasn't at international coalition stepped in yet to remove control of the flight 17 crash site from those who may have shot down the plane?
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here it is. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> let me bring in security correspondent, jim sciutto.ust listening to that audio, what do you make of what you hear? >> well, i think what you're seeing now is the case building against russia, that russia was somehow involved in this. but granted, at different speeds. faster from the ukrainian side, a bit slower and more methodically from the u.s. side. but from the ukrainian side, i've been speaking with them since this plane went down, and they have been providing recordings like this. there is another one that purports to show and i know you aired earlier, this missile system came across from russia, and they were proud when it was transferred across the border. but what this latest audio that you just played seems to show is that the rebels fired towards the sky, thought they were firing towards a ukrainian military plane, and then lo and behold, discovered that it was a civilian plane, as the wreckage came to the ground. and it's just a harrowing, sad and, you know, frankly shocking thing to hear. >> just listening to the president
here it is. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> let me bring in security correspondent, jim sciutto.ust listening to that audio, what do you make of what you hear? >> well, i think what you're seeing now is the case building against russia, that russia was somehow involved in this. but granted, at different speeds. faster from the ukrainian side, a bit slower and more methodically from the u.s. side. but from the ukrainian side, i've been speaking with them since this plane went...
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cnn's jim sciutto reports of a video that just came up online. it shows an angry rant and threat to the u.s. >> reporter: it is a chilling warning from a terrorist born and raised in america. >> we are coming for you. mark my words. >> reporter: in this video posted online this week an american jihadist destroys his passport and warns his home country is not safe from attack. >> i'm from america, 22 years old. >> reporter: he is a college dropout from florida who traveled to syria to join extremists in the fight against the regime of syrian president bashar al assad. then this may he died a suicide bomber, detonating a bomb-ladened truck. more than three years into a civil war in syria that has killed tens of thousand and now spilled into neighboring iraq, thousands of foreign fighters drawn into the battle, among them an estimated 1,000 westerners, including more than 100 americans. u.s. and european officials are gravely concerned about what can happen next. intelligence has found these fighters are being trained to carry out attacks when they
cnn's jim sciutto reports of a video that just came up online. it shows an angry rant and threat to the u.s. >> reporter: it is a chilling warning from a terrorist born and raised in america. >> we are coming for you. mark my words. >> reporter: in this video posted online this week an american jihadist destroys his passport and warns his home country is not safe from attack. >> i'm from america, 22 years old. >> reporter: he is a college dropout from florida who...
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thanks to jim sciutto. and now joining me is the spokesperson for the organization for security and cooperation in europe. that is the group monitoring the situation in eastern ukraine and are responsible for going to the site and seeing what is there at the crash scene, the first international monitors to arrive were from osce. what happens when you arrived? what were you able to see at the crash site? >> we had a very smooth trip all the way up to the crash site. what happened is once we arrived there things switched very rapidly and not for the better. we were met if you want to put it that way by inhospitable armed individuals. they were aggressive towards us. and also the amount of time we spent on the ground was only 75 minutes. they were very wary of us going close to any fuselage. the bodies are laid out there. they don't appear to have been touched since they fell from the sky. and also, very importantly, of course, to everybody involved is that there's very little security around the perimeter of
thanks to jim sciutto. and now joining me is the spokesperson for the organization for security and cooperation in europe. that is the group monitoring the situation in eastern ukraine and are responsible for going to the site and seeing what is there at the crash scene, the first international monitors to arrive were from osce. what happens when you arrived? what were you able to see at the crash site? >> we had a very smooth trip all the way up to the crash site. what happened is once...
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jim sciutto, thank you so much.n spokesman and rear admiral john kirby, appreciate you being with us. coming up tropical can storm arthur threatening to wash out fourth of july celebrations along the east coast. we are tracking that storm. >>> and also lawmakers very quietly change a rule to keep new the dark about one of their biggest perks. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues... great terms... let's close. introducing at&t mobile share value plans... ...with our best-ever pricing for business. >>> members of congress do not have to disclose who funds their travel. did you know that? that is the new guidance from the house ethics committee for members in a rule change that was approved, uh-huh, behind closed doors. our justice correspondent pamela brown has been looking into this. this is a pretty controversial stuff. >> it certainly
jim sciutto, thank you so much.n spokesman and rear admiral john kirby, appreciate you being with us. coming up tropical can storm arthur threatening to wash out fourth of july celebrations along the east coast. we are tracking that storm. >>> and also lawmakers very quietly change a rule to keep new the dark about one of their biggest perks. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what...
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let's go back to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto along with retired lieutenant mark curtly and our aviation correspondent richard quest. jim, what's your read on the way president obama is now handling the current crisis with russia, because it is a severe crisis that's unfolding. >> i would say methodically, deliberately. you heard him today saying there's a lot of misinformation out there, that they want to confirm everything before they make the next move, including who was behind this. at the same time, some of his own officials, senior officials, the u.s. ambassador to the u u.n., samantha power going a step further saying there is evidence that russia would have needed to help these pro-russian rebel to launch a missile like this. president obama said russia is response for the circumstances in eastern ukraine. the fact that the pro-russian rebels are running around. but some senior american officials going a step further to say this shootdown of this passenger jet likely would have involved russian support. that is a very alarming charge to make. >> richar
let's go back to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto along with retired lieutenant mark curtly and our aviation correspondent richard quest. jim, what's your read on the way president obama is now handling the current crisis with russia, because it is a severe crisis that's unfolding. >> i would say methodically, deliberately. you heard him today saying there's a lot of misinformation out there, that they want to confirm everything before they make the next move,...
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"legal view" with jim sciutto today starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm jim sciutto in again today for ashleigh banfield. it is thursday, july 31st, and welcome to "legal view." more israeli. troos, more u.s. ammunition, more war in gaza causing many more palestinian casualties. today the israeli defense forces said it is calling up some 16,000 additional reservists, and cnn has learned the pentagon is shoring up israeli ammunition reserves all for what the israeli prime minister now says is just the first phase of the planned demilitarizization of hamas-run gaza. we'll have much more on all of this in a moment. first i want to bring you some pictures that you may find very hard to watch. yesterday's shelling of a crowded outdoor marketplace in gaza. the gaza health ministry says that 17 people were killed there. a photographer from a news agency was himself badly wounded on the scene. you'll see his camera drop only to be picked up by an assistant who keeps shooting. have a look at this. [ sirens ] [ gunshots ] [ explosions ] >> just a riveting scene from inside the violence in ga
"legal view" with jim sciutto today starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm jim sciutto in again today for ashleigh banfield. it is thursday, july 31st, and welcome to "legal view." more israeli. troos, more u.s. ammunition, more war in gaza causing many more palestinian casualties. today the israeli defense forces said it is calling up some 16,000 additional reservists, and cnn has learned the pentagon is shoring up israeli ammunition reserves all for what the...
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we begin our coverage with jim sciutto in washington. what is the latest you know about this terror in the sky? >> u.s. officials now confirming what ukrainian officials have been telling me all day long, that there was evidence that this plane was taken down by a surface-to-air missile. the two pieces of evidence that u.s. officials cite are, one, tracking by u.s. assets in the region showing that a missile system radar locked eed on to jet before it was shot down and signs of a heat signature missile rising from the ground towards that jet. two very strong clues that this was a missile attack. ukrainian officials going on to say that it was a missile like that one that you just showed a picture of there, a russian-made missile which ukrainian officials say was taken by pro-russian separatists a couple of weeks ago, then leading to this tragedy today. the malaysian jet fell from the sky over eastern ukraine in a fireball in a black cloud. pieces of burning debris visible, trailing gray smoke. on the ground wreckage littered the landscap
we begin our coverage with jim sciutto in washington. what is the latest you know about this terror in the sky? >> u.s. officials now confirming what ukrainian officials have been telling me all day long, that there was evidence that this plane was taken down by a surface-to-air missile. the two pieces of evidence that u.s. officials cite are, one, tracking by u.s. assets in the region showing that a missile system radar locked eed on to jet before it was shot down and signs of a heat...
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. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, i'm jim sciutto reporting from washington. wolf blitzer is off today. millions of people are bracing for a stormy and potentially dangerous july 4th weekend. tropical storm arthur, the first named storm of the 2014 atlantic hurricane season is now churning off the coast of florida as we speak. it's expected to bring heavy rain and fierce winds to the carolina coast tomorrow. and as it marches north, arthur could grow into a category 1 hurricane. here's what it looks like from space. nasa astronaut reed wiseman couldn't resist tweeting a picture of the storm. saying, quote, it looks mean. joe johns is on north carolina's outer banks, right in the cross hairs of the hurricane. tracking arthur from cnn's headquarters in atlanta. no one knows it better than you. how bad is it expected to get? sorry, we're not hearing chad there. we will come back to him when we fix that audio problem. first, i want to go to our joe johns, who is out in the outer banks. can you tell us what you're seeing there now? you're starting to see the outer
. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, i'm jim sciutto reporting from washington. wolf blitzer is off today. millions of people are bracing for a stormy and potentially dangerous july 4th weekend. tropical storm arthur, the first named storm of the 2014 atlantic hurricane season is now churning off the coast of florida as we speak. it's expected to bring heavy rain and fierce winds to the carolina coast tomorrow. and as it marches north, arthur could grow into a category 1...
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"legal view" with jim sciutto today starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm jim sciutto in again todaybanfield. it is thursday, july 31st, and welcome to "legal view." more israeli. troos, more u.s. ammunition, more war in gaza causing many more palestinian casualties. today the israeli defense forces said it is calling up some 16,000 additional reservists, and cnn has learned the pentagon is shoring up israeli ammunition reserves all for what the israeli prime minister now says is just the first phase of the planned demilitarizization of hamas-run gaza. we'll have much more on all of this in a
"legal view" with jim sciutto today starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm jim sciutto in again todaybanfield. it is thursday, july 31st, and welcome to "legal view." more israeli. troos, more u.s. ammunition, more war in gaza causing many more palestinian casualties. today the israeli defense forces said it is calling up some 16,000 additional reservists, and cnn has learned the pentagon is shoring up israeli ammunition reserves all for what the israeli prime...
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our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is joining us now with more on what's going on. it looks like this whole region, jim, seems to be on fire. >> well, wolf, it is. it is extremely dangerous. these are all areas where the u.s. is involved. and, in fact, has made firm policy stands. syria, not intervening there, withdrawing u.s. troops from iraq, sending troops back, participating in regime change in libya and attempting but being failing to engineer a peace agreement in the middle east between israel and the palestinians. now, today, each of those areas, for a variety of reasons, facing severe turmoil. >>> in gaza, hopes for an immediate cease-fire today up in smoke even before it started. >> there are great risks and what happening there and the potential of the greater escalation of violence. >> it's a statement that could describe an entire region mired in conflict. >> i would argue, that given conditions in the middle east, this might be more dangerous than any time in the past. >> in libya, warring militias bombarded tripoli's airport, as the government consider
our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is joining us now with more on what's going on. it looks like this whole region, jim, seems to be on fire. >> well, wolf, it is. it is extremely dangerous. these are all areas where the u.s. is involved. and, in fact, has made firm policy stands. syria, not intervening there, withdrawing u.s. troops from iraq, sending troops back, participating in regime change in libya and attempting but being failing to engineer a peace agreement in...
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now -- >> i'm sorry, i'm told we're getting some more information from jim sciutto. jim, what are you hearing? >> anderson, i've just been told by the ukrainian foreign ministry that it is their belief that this plane was taken down by a russian-made buk missile system that you have mentioned before on the air. this is a truck-mounted missile system. they believe that this was a system used to take this plane down, that it occurred at 10,000 meters, about 33,000 feet. they also make the point that a couple of weeks ago, russian separatists claimed and bragged to have captured such a buk missile system inside eastern ukraine. in fact, at a ukrainian base and that there were pictures on russian television of this captured buk missile launcher. and officials also telling me there's a picture up on the screen right now. >> we're showing our viewers. this is the buk system that you're talking about. >> yeah. and the official i spoke to in the foreign ministry said that one reason that they're concluding this is that this is the only missile that could hit a plane, a passen
now -- >> i'm sorry, i'm told we're getting some more information from jim sciutto. jim, what are you hearing? >> anderson, i've just been told by the ukrainian foreign ministry that it is their belief that this plane was taken down by a russian-made buk missile system that you have mentioned before on the air. this is a truck-mounted missile system. they believe that this was a system used to take this plane down, that it occurred at 10,000 meters, about 33,000 feet. they also make...
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i'm jim sciutto reporting from washington. wolf blitzer is off today.ow to the big event of the day. the world cup. argentina is playing wit zerland right now. the u.s. is playing belgium in 2 1/2 hours. i'm not going to be doing a lot of work during that 90 minutes of play. we have our chris cuomo in salvador. our richard roth is checking in with fans in new york. and i'm sitting here at a desk in washington. there's something not fair about that. anyway, to chris and laura who i'm very happy for down there as you get this very tough assignment in brazil. what's it feel like today? you have to tell me. do we have a chance to win? is it going to be tough? how are injuries going to play out? walk me through this. >> all right. >> please, let him have it. >> injuries are going to be very interesting. jozy altidore is back for the usa. a lot of people love jozy altidore, they think he's a great striker. i am not one of those people. chris kind of rolls his eyes when i say that. i don't know if he will be included in the starting 11 which we will find out p
i'm jim sciutto reporting from washington. wolf blitzer is off today.ow to the big event of the day. the world cup. argentina is playing wit zerland right now. the u.s. is playing belgium in 2 1/2 hours. i'm not going to be doing a lot of work during that 90 minutes of play. we have our chris cuomo in salvador. our richard roth is checking in with fans in new york. and i'm sitting here at a desk in washington. there's something not fair about that. anyway, to chris and laura who i'm very happy...
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national security correspondent jim sciutto is in washington. and senior national correspondent nic robertson in kiev. i'm glad to have all of you here. jim, 298 lives on this malaysian plane. the u.s. says it was shot down by a missile. what do we know at this point? >> well, the u.s. taking two pieces of evidence to conclude this was shot down by a missile, based on u.s. assets in the region. one, that they detected a missile system radar locking on to the aircraft just before it was hit. and two, detected the heat signature of a missile rising from the ground in the direction of the plane, based on those two things, it's comfortable concluding that a surface-to-air missile took this plane down. now the step they will not go is to who shot it down, or indeed on what side of the border, the ukrainian side of the border or the russian side of the border. now ukrainian officials, they are going much further. they're saying, and blaming directly pro-russian separatists. and by association, russian for arming those separatists. and the evidence they
national security correspondent jim sciutto is in washington. and senior national correspondent nic robertson in kiev. i'm glad to have all of you here. jim, 298 lives on this malaysian plane. the u.s. says it was shot down by a missile. what do we know at this point? >> well, the u.s. taking two pieces of evidence to conclude this was shot down by a missile, based on u.s. assets in the region. one, that they detected a missile system radar locking on to the aircraft just before it was...
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i'm jim sciutto.ashington has just extended its cease-fire for a couple of hours so people in one town can get aid or indeed get out. both sides blamed each other for an earlier cease-fire coming to a very quick end. more than 410 palestinians have died so far in the conflict along with five israeli soldiers and two israeli civilians. in israel our wolf blitzer talked to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he says the israeli people deserve, quote, a sustainable quiet and they are doing what they have to do to get it. >> quick question. your exit strategy from gaza, what is it? >> sustainable quiet. i mean, we didn't seek this escalation. hamas forced it on us. they started rocketing our cities, steadily increasing the fire. i called for de-escalation. they refused. i accepted an egyptian cease-fire proposal backed up by the arab league and the u.n., they refused. i accepted a humanitarian law proposed by the united nations. they refused. we'll stop our operations when we can bring back quiet to our pe
i'm jim sciutto.ashington has just extended its cease-fire for a couple of hours so people in one town can get aid or indeed get out. both sides blamed each other for an earlier cease-fire coming to a very quick end. more than 410 palestinians have died so far in the conflict along with five israeli soldiers and two israeli civilians. in israel our wolf blitzer talked to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he says the israeli people deserve, quote, a sustainable quiet and they are doing what...
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i'm jim sciutto in washington. we have come a long way since the days when president obama promise a reset of relations with russia. conflicts between the u.s. and moscow have been growing for months. russia giving shelter to edward snowden. putin's annexation of crimea. and the ongoing conflict along ukraine's eastern border, just to name a few. and now, this crash with 298 dead. joining me now to discuss the state of u.s. relations with russia is david gergen. he is a former white house adviser to four presidents and now a senior political analyst at cnn. david so good to have you on. thank you for taking the time. >> thank you, jim. good to talk to you. >> so david, there has been criticism of the obama administration's handling of this throu this. throughout, senator john mccain used the word "cowardly" to describe the obama administration's response. do you think obama he is a policy regarding russia has been a failure? and in light of this later, i don't want to say game changer, it's world change we are this
i'm jim sciutto in washington. we have come a long way since the days when president obama promise a reset of relations with russia. conflicts between the u.s. and moscow have been growing for months. russia giving shelter to edward snowden. putin's annexation of crimea. and the ongoing conflict along ukraine's eastern border, just to name a few. and now, this crash with 298 dead. joining me now to discuss the state of u.s. relations with russia is david gergen. he is a former white house...
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thanks for being with us. >> i'm jim sciutto.gins right now. >>> back in 1981, i had the american dream, the beautiful wife, the house in the suburbs, and a beautiful 6-year-old son. and one day i went to work, kissed my son good-bye, and never saw him again. in two weeks, i became the parent of a murdered child and i'll always be the parent of a murdered child. i still have the heartache. i still have the rage. i waited years for justice. i know what it's like to be there waiting for some answers, and over those years, i learned how to do one thing really well. and that's how to catch these bastards and bring them back to justice. i've become a manhunter.
thanks for being with us. >> i'm jim sciutto.gins right now. >>> back in 1981, i had the american dream, the beautiful wife, the house in the suburbs, and a beautiful 6-year-old son. and one day i went to work, kissed my son good-bye, and never saw him again. in two weeks, i became the parent of a murdered child and i'll always be the parent of a murdered child. i still have the heartache. i still have the rage. i waited years for justice. i know what it's like to be there...
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jim sciutto our national security correspondent joins me. somebody in that region clearly bears the weight of this tragedy. what are the possible ways the world powers are going to respond to that? are diplomats already talking about sanctions? >> well, this is the key question now. you saw the president there kind of defer that question as to ways the response, saying that they still want to look at what exactly happened here. although he did prod the europeans there. he said in his words this is a wake-up call for europe and the world, that this crisis in ukraine cannot be localized is not contained. as we know, covering this the last several week, the u.s. was pushing for stiffer sanctions against russia, even before this plane was shot down, and weren't able to get the europeans on board. the new sanctions the president announced earlier this week, sectoral sanctions against some key russian energy and banks, energy firms and banks. europeans were not on board for that. so the president to some degree in his comments there needling the e
jim sciutto our national security correspondent joins me. somebody in that region clearly bears the weight of this tragedy. what are the possible ways the world powers are going to respond to that? are diplomats already talking about sanctions? >> well, this is the key question now. you saw the president there kind of defer that question as to ways the response, saying that they still want to look at what exactly happened here. although he did prod the europeans there. he said in his...
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. >> jim sciutto, thank you very much. thanks to you as well.ead, two flights that ended in disaster, one man was supposed to be, on both of those flights. we will meet him, when we come back. . . [announcer] word is getting out. purina dog chow light & healthy is a deliciously tender and crunchy kibble blend. with 20% fewer calories than purina dog chow. isn't it time you discovered the lighter side of dog chow. purina dog chow light & healthy. then boom... what happened? stress, fun, bad habits kids, now what? let's build a new, smarter bed using the dualair chambers to sense your movement, heartbeat, breathing. introducing the sleep number bed with sleepiqtm technology. it tracks your sleep and tells you how to adjust for a good, better and an awesome night. the difference? try adjusting up or down. you'll know cuz sleep iq™ tells you. only at a sleep number store, mattresses with sleepiq start at just $999.98. know better sleep with sleep number. >>> there are two disasters that truly stunt world, especially the man booked on both of these i
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jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >>> checking our other top stories, dozens of people have been sleeping in a high school parking lot after this massive california wildfire forced them out of their homes. this is called the butts fire, near napa valley and burned at least two homes but hundreds more are still in danger. >> it could be right there in ten minutes from now it will be behind you. >> our house is up there, i have animals up there and my fiance is up there. >> seemed like we were going to be okay, but then it changed, just like that. >> at last check the fire was roughly 30% could be tained, no injuries have been reported. >>> some absolutely frightening video to show you now of a woman plowing her car right into two men at a gas station in texas. this happened after what the men say was an innocent verbal exchange. >> it was like, whoa. you almost hit us, and from there, she started yelling, she was like "if i want to kill you, i'm not going to hit you about a car, i'm going to shoot you." >> unbelievable when you look at the pictures to learn that both men walked away with j
jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >>> checking our other top stories, dozens of people have been sleeping in a high school parking lot after this massive california wildfire forced them out of their homes. this is called the butts fire, near napa valley and burned at least two homes but hundreds more are still in danger. >> it could be right there in ten minutes from now it will be behind you. >> our house is up there, i have animals up there and my fiance is up there. >>...
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cnn's jim sciutto has more. >> reporter: it is a chilling warning from a terrorist born and raised in america. >> we are coming for you. mark my words! >> reporter: in this video posted online this week, an american jihadist destroys his passport, and warns his home country is not safe from attack. >> my name is -- i'm from america. i'm 22 years old. >> reporter: he is monar abu who traveled to syria to join extremists in the fight against the regime of syrian president bashar al assad. then this may he died in a suicide bombing, detonating a bomb-laden truck more than three years into a civil war in syria that has killed tens of thousands, and now spilled into neighboring iraq, thousands of foreign fighters have been drawn to the battle. among them an estimated one thousand westerners, including more than 100 americans. u.s. and european officials are now gravely concerned about what could happen next. intelligence has found these fighters are being trained to carry out attacks when they return home. including to america. >> the number of foreign fighters that are already in place in
cnn's jim sciutto has more. >> reporter: it is a chilling warning from a terrorist born and raised in america. >> we are coming for you. mark my words! >> reporter: in this video posted online this week, an american jihadist destroys his passport, and warns his home country is not safe from attack. >> my name is -- i'm from america. i'm 22 years old. >> reporter: he is monar abu who traveled to syria to join extremists in the fight against the regime of syrian...
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jim sciutto is our chief national security correspondent. know that this is the announcement from the u.s. and the united nations. do we have any assurances that either israel or hamas have accepted this initiative by the u.s. and the u.n. >> i can't imagine the u.s. and the u.n. would announce it unless they had israel's agreement and some assurances from hamas, but still, it's a remarkable development considering where we were just a few hours ago. you had the israeli prime minister netanyahu as you well know where you are saying that the military operations there were just the first phase of a broader goal in gaza to demilitary rise, setting a very high bar there for success in the operation. and as the statement makes clear, the focus now discussions in egypt will be on achieving a more durable cease-fire. it's those issues, satisfying israel's demands for real progress on its own security and from the other side inside gaza, their demands for some longer term relief, not just an end to the current offensive but you've heard from hamas l
jim sciutto is our chief national security correspondent. know that this is the announcement from the u.s. and the united nations. do we have any assurances that either israel or hamas have accepted this initiative by the u.s. and the u.n. >> i can't imagine the u.s. and the u.n. would announce it unless they had israel's agreement and some assurances from hamas, but still, it's a remarkable development considering where we were just a few hours ago. you had the israeli prime minister...
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. >>> hello, i'm jim sciutto reporting again today from washington. wolf blitzer is off today. the first hurricane of the atlantic season is gaining strength and speed as it barrels up the east coast on the busiest holiday travel week of the summer. right now, hurricane arthur is churning off the coast of south carolina. it is a category one storm with 90 mile an hour winds but forecasters expect arthur will become a cat 2 with 105 mile an hour winds before making landfall on north carolina's outer banks. that's expected to happen overnight. dangerous conditions are possible along much of the east coast now just as millions of people hit the roads and airports for the july 4 weekend -- myself included. alina machado is on the carolina coast and chad myers is tracking arthur from hurricane headquarters in atlanta. chad, if i can, i want to start with you. where is the storm headed right now and as it makes landfall how bad do you think this is going to be? >> it's moving north. it's going to turn the northeast. it's going to make a glancing blow at wilmington, north carolina. th
. >>> hello, i'm jim sciutto reporting again today from washington. wolf blitzer is off today. the first hurricane of the atlantic season is gaining strength and speed as it barrels up the east coast on the busiest holiday travel week of the summer. right now, hurricane arthur is churning off the coast of south carolina. it is a category one storm with 90 mile an hour winds but forecasters expect arthur will become a cat 2 with 105 mile an hour winds before making landfall on north...
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jim sciutto, what did you think as far as the news value of what the president had to say?the understatement of the year shs the president calling it a complex world with all these crises he's dealing with. one, on the iran talks underway with a looming deadline on saturday, july 20th, the president, in fact, telegraphing what they are talking about is not a long-term deal, but how long they extend the negotiations. he said whether additional time is necessary to talk. that's what we have been hearing as well. the president seeming to confirm that. on ukraine, we were looking back. it was on june 5th that the president said russia had weeks, not months, to change its behavior in ukraine. that's about six weeks ago. russia has fail ed in his words to take any of the steps to deescalate there. escalating in many ways and now the president following through with system of these sectorial sanctions. that's news worthy. the president underlying his support for a diplomatic solution for what's happening in gaza. he's dispatched secretary of state john kerry really in frenetic act
jim sciutto, what did you think as far as the news value of what the president had to say?the understatement of the year shs the president calling it a complex world with all these crises he's dealing with. one, on the iran talks underway with a looming deadline on saturday, july 20th, the president, in fact, telegraphing what they are talking about is not a long-term deal, but how long they extend the negotiations. he said whether additional time is necessary to talk. that's what we have been...
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. >> i'm jim sciutto. "the hunt with john walsh" begins right now. >>> back in 1981, i had the american dream, the beautiful wife, the house in the suburbs, and a beautiful 6-year-old son. and one day i went to work, kissed my son good-bye, and never saw him again. in two weeks, i became the parent of a murdered child and i'll always be the parent of a murdered child. i still have the heartache. i still have the rage. i waited years for justice. i know what it's like to be there waiting for some answers, and over those years, i learned how to do one thing really well. and that's how to catch these bastards and bring them back to justice. i've become a manhunter. i'm out there looking for bad guys. >> i hope you're having a great day. i miss you so bad. can we please just be together. i'll make you happy, i promise. i have to go now. i love you, baby. ♪ >> my supervisor called me to report we had just been notified of an escape from the halfway house. >> for stoeser, it's young girls. pubescent, 13, 14, tha
. >> i'm jim sciutto. "the hunt with john walsh" begins right now. >>> back in 1981, i had the american dream, the beautiful wife, the house in the suburbs, and a beautiful 6-year-old son. and one day i went to work, kissed my son good-bye, and never saw him again. in two weeks, i became the parent of a murdered child and i'll always be the parent of a murdered child. i still have the heartache. i still have the rage. i waited years for justice. i know what it's like to...
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jim sciutto, cnn. >> one of the flight attendants was holding out hope that her friend would return.ust told me that she would have a transparent, and said it would be all right for you to come pick me up. i said, why not. i told her, i'll wait for you to come back. and she'll never come back. >> does it seem real to you at this point? >> what? >> does it seem real? >> i just hope it is false. i try to message, but no answer. >> the majority of the passengers were from the netherlands. at least 154 of the 298 onboard. recovery crews have already reached the scene where the shower of debris fell to earth. it's a pretty rural area, fields, small villages and farms. a journalist was there and spoke to don lemon about an hour ago. we have to warn you, that some viewers may find what he has to say disturbing. >> people are trying to identify bodies, mark the spots where bodies have fallen. there's four sort of search-and-rescue teams lined up along the road. but the way it's being done, is not systematic by any means. they're basically just laying little white cotton ribbons to sticks, an
jim sciutto, cnn. >> one of the flight attendants was holding out hope that her friend would return.ust told me that she would have a transparent, and said it would be all right for you to come pick me up. i said, why not. i told her, i'll wait for you to come back. and she'll never come back. >> does it seem real to you at this point? >> what? >> does it seem real? >> i just hope it is false. i try to message, but no answer. >> the majority of the passengers...
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. >> i'm jim sciutto in washington. breaking news.just the past few minutes in the conflict between israel and palestinian militants that, if confirmed, could be a major turning point in this already deadly conflict. >> the breaking news is that the military faction of hamas al qassam brigade that is operating in gaza has announced that they've captured an israeli soldier whom they are holding that soldier as a prisoner. we're working very hard to verify this claim and looking for further announcements from hamas. no comment yet from israel on that hamas claim. more people, though, died today on both sides of the israeli/palestinian conflict than on any single day since the latest wave of violence started. 13 israeli soldiers and 87 people in gaza have been killed. most of them in one town that was targeted for an intense air strike by the israeli military. >> israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke to cnn a few minutes ago. he said people say the israeli response is too much are frankly wrong. >> there are very few examples
. >> i'm jim sciutto in washington. breaking news.just the past few minutes in the conflict between israel and palestinian militants that, if confirmed, could be a major turning point in this already deadly conflict. >> the breaking news is that the military faction of hamas al qassam brigade that is operating in gaza has announced that they've captured an israeli soldier whom they are holding that soldier as a prisoner. we're working very hard to verify this claim and looking for...
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jim sciutto is joining us in washington. jim, let's just kind of review if we could the information that we have now that you have been getting. you have been talking to ukrainian authorities a lot. you have been talking to folks from nato. lay out the broad picture, kind of the broad brush for those who are just joining us. >> well, i'll tell you, the perspective of ukrainian officials, and it is good that we add a caveat here, because there are political elements involved in this conflict that would lead ukrainian officials to immediately point the finger at pro-russian separatists or indeed russia. but they are indeed doing that. and they're taking it out of the theoretical category and saying explicitly they believe this plane was shot down. and, in fact, with specificity, saying they believe it was a russian-made buk, b-u-k, missile system, used to take it down at altitude of 33,000 feet. and in speaking with them, they made the point to me that two weeks ago, pro russian separatists in ukraine captured just such a missi
jim sciutto is joining us in washington. jim, let's just kind of review if we could the information that we have now that you have been getting. you have been talking to ukrainian authorities a lot. you have been talking to folks from nato. lay out the broad picture, kind of the broad brush for those who are just joining us. >> well, i'll tell you, the perspective of ukrainian officials, and it is good that we add a caveat here, because there are political elements involved in this...
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. >>> i want to bring in the panel now, jim sciutto with more breaking news, richard quest and national security analyst fran townsend. jim, u.s. intelligence is saying a missile did take down this plane. what kind of intelligence are they actually pointing to? >> two things, two indicators, u.s. assets in the region, one, they picked up the radar from a missile system tracked on, locked on to this aircraft before it went down and two, other assets detected the missile fire, the fire, the rocket fire in effect out of the back of the missile as it rose towards the aircraft. those are two indicators this is a surface to air missile strike. >> fran, take us behind the screens, what are intelligence agencies doing at this hour to determine whose responsible, the track of this missile and do you see this as something that takes a lot of time or something you think they will know pretty soon? >> this is pretty, you know, the facts, even until the last couple hours, anderson, we're learning more and more as jim described to you. so by in large what they will look at first and foremost is the t
. >>> i want to bring in the panel now, jim sciutto with more breaking news, richard quest and national security analyst fran townsend. jim, u.s. intelligence is saying a missile did take down this plane. what kind of intelligence are they actually pointing to? >> two things, two indicators, u.s. assets in the region, one, they picked up the radar from a missile system tracked on, locked on to this aircraft before it went down and two, other assets detected the missile fire, the...
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. >> reporter: you know that our barbara starr and jim sciutto and others have been reporting that the initial assessment of the intelligence community, the buk missile, this s-a-d 11 surface-to-air missile. now the officials are saying they believe that to definitely be the case. what is new is that they believe since the shootdown of flight 17 that that launcher and other missile that's were operational have been brought back across the border. and the implication here is that russia is trying to scrub the scene of the crash site and cover up any evidence that might implicate it in having supplied this missile to the separatists. they do not know whether russian operatives were in eastern ukraine and actually fired that missile. what officials do know is that these separatists if they fired it, had to have had some training from the russians. this is not as we've been discussing an operational system that is really good to go. officials say it doesn't matter though. it doesn't matter whether russian officials actually fired the missile or whether russia just gave the separatists the
. >> reporter: you know that our barbara starr and jim sciutto and others have been reporting that the initial assessment of the intelligence community, the buk missile, this s-a-d 11 surface-to-air missile. now the officials are saying they believe that to definitely be the case. what is new is that they believe since the shootdown of flight 17 that that launcher and other missile that's were operational have been brought back across the border. and the implication here is that russia is...
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i'm jim sciutto in washington.this special coverage of the downing of flight 17. reliable sources has been preempted but brian stelter wil
i'm jim sciutto in washington.this special coverage of the downing of flight 17. reliable sources has been preempted but brian stelter wil
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we want to check with jim sciutto on the response by russia. >> reporter: the response from the ukrainian officials from very early on, the ukrainian government has placed blame for this on pro-russian separatists and russia for arming the separatists with missiles capable of taking down airplanes. i've been in with the ukrainian foreign minister and he said that russia sponsors terrorism and we hold putin responsible for this. so the ukrainian government pointing the finger at putin himself, who has played a double game here thinkisaying it wants deescalate ukraine and sending arms across the border and ukrainian officials saying some of those arms and has caused this passenger jet to come down. so in very definitive terms there from ukraine officials. >> obviously, an important piece in this is who is going to lead the investigation, who is going to investigate this crash site. separatist groups there saying they would like international investigation. richard roth has been monitoring developments at the u.n. and joins us now. what is the u.n. response in. >> reporter: anderson, the you
we want to check with jim sciutto on the response by russia. >> reporter: the response from the ukrainian officials from very early on, the ukrainian government has placed blame for this on pro-russian separatists and russia for arming the separatists with missiles capable of taking down airplanes. i've been in with the ukrainian foreign minister and he said that russia sponsors terrorism and we hold putin responsible for this. so the ukrainian government pointing the finger at putin...
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. >>> hello, i'm jim sciutto, reporting again from washington. wolf blitzer is off
. >>> hello, i'm jim sciutto, reporting again from washington. wolf blitzer is off
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want to go to jim sciutto our national security correspondent who joins us live now from washington, im, thanks so much for being with us. so many questions come to mind right now. we're talking about the geography this plane apparently going down in ukraine near the russian border. the second question, malaysia airlines, the second time in just a few months an air disaster there. is there something going on here in these early stages? what can you tell us some. >> well, i have spoken with u.s. officials both in the white house and intelligence and are aware of reports that they don't know the cause certainly at this point, although they're looking a at it but malaysian is a aaa the same aircraft that went missing over the southern indian ocean but the other thing that comes to mind, listen it is early, reasons you and i both know that a plane can go down, remember this border area as you look at the map along the ukrainian/russia border there have been a number of ukrainian military transport planes shot down by russian separatists in recent weeks including a report this morning of a
want to go to jim sciutto our national security correspondent who joins us live now from washington, im, thanks so much for being with us. so many questions come to mind right now. we're talking about the geography this plane apparently going down in ukraine near the russian border. the second question, malaysia airlines, the second time in just a few months an air disaster there. is there something going on here in these early stages? what can you tell us some. >> well, i have spoken...
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our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is joining us now. th africa? because most of this region now is on fire. >> no question, wolf. as you know, there's been a lot of talk of the u.s. disengaging from the middle east. we're covering crises in several countries where the obama administration had firm and consequential stands, not intervening in syria, withdrawing u.s. troops in iraq, participating in regime change in libya and failing to engineer a peace agreement in the middle east. now today each of those countries for a variety of reasons facing severe turmoil. >> in gaza, hopes for an immediate cease fire today up in smoke. even before before it started. >> there are great risks in what is happening there and in the potential of an even greater escalation of violence. >> its an a statement that could describe an entire region mired in conflict. from gaza to libya to iraq and syria. >> i would argue given conditions in the middle east this might be more dangerous than anytime in the past. >> reporter: in libya, warring militias bombarded
our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is joining us now. th africa? because most of this region now is on fire. >> no question, wolf. as you know, there's been a lot of talk of the u.s. disengaging from the middle east. we're covering crises in several countries where the obama administration had firm and consequential stands, not intervening in syria, withdrawing u.s. troops in iraq, participating in regime change in libya and failing to engineer a peace agreement in the...