>> karl, it's john berman in new york. please, you and your crew take whatever precautions you need. while we have you, let me ask you this. we understand that residents of gaza, in the north, were sent text messages and given cell phone calls told to evacuate their homes because of a greater intensified israeli offensive that was planned. you are in gaza city. explain to me how this works. this was not the area residents have been told to get out en masse right now. who lives in this neighborhood where you are working? what are these buildings that are surrounding you? what sense do you have of this area where this missile or bomb struck, you know, about three minutes ago directly behind you? >> reporter: in terms of the area immediately surrounding us, john, it is a residential area, some offices. 500 yards away is a multistory building, the headquarters of a hamas run radio station. it was hit three times with bombs during the night. at least once while we were on air. for the most part, what is around us, a little bit

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. the latest on the turmoil in the middle east. a teenager from florida has been released to house arrest after being beaten by israeli police. he was there to attend the funeral of a palestinian cousin. the revenge attack for the death of three israeli teens. israel targeted terrorists in gaza after more than two dozen rockets were fired sunday. how does this cycle of violence stop in we are live in jerusalem. now we understand israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu spoke with the father of the teen who was killed. what can you tell us about the conversation? >> that's right. he spoke to him this morning, christine, offering his condolences for the death of his 16-year-old son, mohammad who was abducted last week and whose charred remains were found outside jerusalem causing huge classes, bigger than any we have seen here really in around a decade. in that conversation, benjamin netanyahu said, i quote one line, we denounce brutal behavior. it cannot be by a human being. the line h

. >> i'm john berman. 4:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with prorebels in eastern ukraine finally turning over the boxes in mh17. this is critical. it's been stone walled for days. who fired the missile that blew the boeing 777 out of the sky? was it russian rebels? president obama not satisfied investigators are getting what they need. >> the russian backed separatists continue to block the investigation. they have repeatedly prevented international investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage. as they approached, they fired their weapons into the air. the separatists are removing evidence from the crash site. what are they trying to hide? >> meanwhile, could it be that russian president vladimir putin is trying to distance himself from the rebels? listen to the ambassador from the united nations that the downing of flight mh17 was nothing but a mistake. >> according to them, if the -- there was confusion. there was confusion, not an act of terrorism. >> it keeps up the spin campaign and the fighting keeps raging around

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans.ast the hour, we welcome all our viewers here in the u.s. and all of you around the world. a day of mourning is declared as that nation prepares for the victims of flight 17. it's happening later today. it turns out there were about 200 bodies on those death trains leaving donetsk, meaning the remains of nearly 100 other people on the doomed airliner are still missing. nick paton walsh joining us live on the phone from kharkiv, ukraine, where the victims of flight 17 are being put on a plane there. nick, you say the mood very somber trying to restore the dignity of these people, whose bodies have not been treated with dignity over the last few days. >> reporter: certainly, certainly, the c-130 about to fly a number of bodies. we saw four brought by ukrainian soldiers in dress are uniform. very somber moment, the c-130 engines have started and in fact the door has closed. it's a situation, it's very hard to describe, how sad. people have managed to muster the atmosphere here on this tar

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. >> i'm john berman. we welcome all our viewers here in the united states and around the world as well. breaking overnight, we are talking the fighting in gaza. blood has been spilling despice calling for a humanitarian cease-fire. they launched 70 rockets sunday. israelis 40 attacks onuo hamas. jerusalem is denying responsibility for 16 deaths at a school in gaza. they are confirming there was an air mortar that struck the schoolyard. martin, give us a sense of what is happening right now. it is a holiday in gaza. >> reporter: it is, indeed. the celebration of the breaking of the fast, the festival that officially ends ramadan. normally a joyous time. it's anything but that right now. let's talk about the peace process. there's not a cease-fire and there's not going to be a cease-fire for the immediate future. there were hopes yesterday, it might happen. they both agreed to a humanitarian but they agreed at different times. the israelis were first. at that time, they were willing to observe 24 hours of t

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it's monday, july 21st. 5:00 a.m. in the east. elcome all the viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. grotesque is the world john kerry used to describe the pro-russian rebels removing the bodies from the wreckage of flight 17. they are piling the corpses into refrigerated rail cars. the russian president, vladimir putin insisting this disaster should somehow unite the international community, not divide it. secretary of state, john kerry, slamming what he calls the drunken

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow in for christine romans.welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. there is no end in site to the deadly violence raging between israel and gaza. the fighting between israel and hamas intensifying. an explosion at a refugee camp killing ten palestinians, eight of them children. another blast. hamas blaming israel for both attacks. the israelis insisting they did not fire in that area. conflicts for a cease-fire are fading fast. the prime

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow in for christine romans. we welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. fighting overnight continuing despite the humanitarian cease-fire. hamas firing rockets to israel. officials in jerusalem are denying responsibility for 16 deaths at a u.n. school in gaza. they are confirming there was an one that struck the courtyard, but say it was empty at the time. i want to bring in martin savidge. let's talk about the information on the ground. there may have been a lull in the fighting between the two sides. do you get that sense at this hour or not? it is persisting as heavily as it was in previous days? >> reporter: morning poppy. i wish i had better news. no, the conflict is continuing between both sides, israel and hamas. there were indications we may be inching to humanitarian pause. the israeli cabinet, saturday into sunday voted in favor of that and hamas rejected it firing rockets and mortars into israel. then hamas said it was not ready to declare this 24 hours of temporary halt to

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with the intention acrimony between president obama and john boehner take ton a new level. boehner's lawsuit will focus on the affordable care act. changes to the health care law should have been left to congress. the president overtook his authority. only his right to change legislation without congressional approval. listen to the heated sparring between boehner and the president. >> listen, this is a problem of the president's only making. he has been president for five and a half years. when is he going to take responsibility for something. >> you hear them. all right. sue him. impeach him. really? really? for what? you're going to sue me for doing my job? okay. >> john boehner is specifically upset by the border situation. all of this playing out as a funding dead lynn on the $3.7 billion deadline to fix the border crisis. at a senate hearing, jay johnson said doing nothing is not an option. time is of the essence. agencies involved in the plan will start running out of m

i'm john berman. >> i'm lara in for christine romans.ast the hour. >> we are going to begin with the search for the people who shot down malaysia airlines flight 17. right now, the wreckage, the body parts scattered across miles of eastern ukraine. the malaysian airlines jet flown out of the sky by what officials believe was a russian made surface-to-air missile. it points to pro-russia separatists as the suspected attackers. president obama warning the world is watching as concern grows that the crime scene is being contaminated and altered by the attackers. it is the pro-russian separatists who control this crime scene right now. our coverage begins with nic robertson who is live this morning in kiev. what's the latest? >> reporter: john, 121 bodies recovered so far. 95 investigators on sight moving in 18 vehicles. they have hampered by armed separatists and hampered by the scale of the debris field. we have heard from the ukrainian prime minister, visibly shaken, using very strong language and calling for international help to bring t

i'm john berman. michaela pereira is off today. we'll have those stories more at this hour. for five years he was a captive. at this hour, he is a client. he has lawyered up bergdahl -- eugene fie dell is a military justice expert. he didn't talk much about his client's situation, but cnn did ask why bergdahl is back on active duty just six weeks after he was freed. >> obviously the army has concluded that he is fit for duty. i don't anticipate that they are going to deploy him anywhere. you know, there's some business that has to be conducted. chiefly this investigation. and if the army thinks that he was ready to wrap up the reintegration process and move into a regular duty status, the army is a better judge of that than i am. >> we're joined by our military analyst, retired colonel rick francona. what does it say to you that sergeant bergdahl is retaining counsel at this point and what will the job of this attorney be? what is the most important thing for him to do right now? >> general dahl is the one asked of doing this investigation. since the general probably believe

john berman joining thus morning. east after a ceasefire between israel and hamas came crumbling down. both sides agreed to hold their fire for part of the weekend.

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. >>> a supertyphoon is threatening thousands of people in okinawa, japan. people have been advised to evacuate because of waves and wind gusts as high as 150 miles per hour. the typhoon is threatening coastal areas including the u.s. marine corps base. will is live with the latest. this seems like a very big storm. >> reporter: it certainly is. the wind shear from this thing is enormous. we know the winds are howling in okinawa and the surrounding islands. you talk about the u.s. military presence on the island. they are part of the 1.2 million people living there in the path of this monster storm right now and we know over the weekend the commander of the air base sent out an alarm. it's the strongest to hit the island in 15 years. anything not tied down could turn into a deadly projective. 70,000 people are without power on okinawa right now. 14,000 passengers have been grounded because of canceled flights at three different airports. the worst isn't over. after this mov

john berman kind enough to return and be with us once again. chris is off.breaking news overnight. the wild weather as severe storms and tornadoes swept across the eastern u.s. at least five people are dead from the storms. in upstate new york, four people were killed and several homes were destroyed, and at a maryland campsite one child w

i'm john berman. >> i'm krchristine romans. happening today, the senate appropriations committee will consider the pd's $3.5 billion request. it's a day after the president traveled to texas meeting with governor rick perry and other people. congressional republicans were screaming about immigration problems after refusing to act. >> the problem here is not major disagreement around the actions that could be helpful in dealing with the problem. the challenge is, is congress prepared to act, to put the resources in place to get this done? another way of putting it, and i said it directly, are folks more interested in politics or solving the problem. >> if you look at the president's request, it's about continuing to deal with the problem. we have to do something about sealing the border and ending this problem so we can move on with immigration reform. >> several republicans are pushing a plan to dial back a bush era policy guaranteeing minors a deportation hearing before they can be sent home. people along the border are left t

. >> and i'm john berman. it's wednesday, july 30th. it's 4:00 a.m. in the east.e welcome the viewers here in the united states around the world. >> in ukraine, the west deliveringing a one-two punch. the e.u. imposing new sanctions on moscow, lilting russian banks' access to u.s. capital markets. the u.s. following suit by announcing key sectors of russia's economy. >> this is a choice that russia and president putin in particular has made. there continues to be a better choice. the choice of de-escalation, the choice of joining the world in a diplomatic solution to this situation. >> the question this morning, will these sanctions work, i want to bring in nic robertson live from moscow. nic, when you look at the economics, they will work, they will hit the russian economy. but will they work? will they change putin's strategy that's the big question. >> yeah, certainly what we're hearing, the bank playing it down. one of the state banks being targeted by these sanctions that are going to limit the amount and the ability of these state-owned banks to borrow money

. >> i'm john berman. good to see you this thursday. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. horrifying images spiraling out of control. we want to warn you, the pictures are graphic. israeli warplanes bombarding a marketplace in gaza city killing palestinians and wounding others after a deadly blast at a u.n. school left 17 palestinians dead. israel insists hamas bears response nlt. the u.n. secretary general doesn't see it that way. >> it points to israeli as the cause. nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children. >> we know for a fact that hamas terrorists were using the vicinity as a shield. if you are standing by the front gate and shooting and don't want to be shot back because there's a school behind you. >> this just in, abass firing a letter to the secretary general saying israel's systematic attack on homes as well as u.n. schools sheltering civilians institutes war crimes. i have declared the gaza strip a disaster area. we are joined by karl penhaul. in the midst of this, i

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it's monday, july 21st. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we welcome all the viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. grotesque is the world john kerry used to describe the pro-russian rebels removing the bodies from the wreckage of flight 17. they are piling the corpses into refrigerated rail cars. the russian president, vladimir putin insisting this disaster should somehow unite the international community, not divide it. secretary of state, john kerry, slamming what he calls the drunken separatists controlling the crash site. the same separatists claiming they have the jet's flight data recorders. blasting russia for the bloody gorillas controlling the crash site. i want to bring in ivan watson in ukraine. what is the latest there now four days after this crash, what is the latest on the ground politically and in terms of securing the crash site? >> reporter: the latest is coming from the dutch government, which confirms several dutch forensic experts reached the torres train station near the crash zone where more than 100 of the vic

. >> i'm john berman. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> israel warning an intense large scale military operation is close at hand. the crisis in the region escalating after the israeli's sent in ground forces to knock out a site over the weekend. it started a missile attack and killed 18 members. we are monitoring the developments live from gaza this morning. good morning to you, carl. >> reporter: poppy, this conflict is continuing to escalate. certainly no sign of a let up. the israeli military said in the last 24 hours, they launched 40 air strikes on the gaza strip. the military says they are trying to target tunnels used by militants and their training camps and weapons dumps. hamas, no sign they or their partners in this islamic jihad are putting their arms down. 130 rockets have been launched from the gaza strip toward israel. of course, the civilians, they are the ones bearing the brunt of this operation right now. since this israeli operation started and since hamas started firing the rockets, more than 170 people

i'm john berman. >> it is 31 minutes past the hour.e rockets have been fired from gaza toward southern israel ending a halt to the violence. the two sides agreed to the cease-fire after it killed four palestinian boys playing on the beach. ben wedeman is live from gaza city this morning. ben, good morning. >> reporter: yes, good morning, laura. rockets were fired in the direction of the regional council, right over the border from gaza. we have no word on an israeli response although yesterday the israeli military did say that if any -- if the cease-fire was in any way broken, they would respond with force. no word of a response, however, at this point. during these few brief hours, there's just two and a half hours left to this pause, many peopleav supplies, to go to the bank and get money because banks have been closed for many days. employees going out to get paid. the israeli military made it clear that all those going back to the areas, they were warned to leave should be sure to get out by 3:00 p.m. local. that's two and a half h

. >> i'm john berman. we have the latest in the attack that brought down malaysian flight 17. this jet was blown out of the sky by what officials say was a surface-to-air miss sill. right now, the evidence points to pro-russian separatists as the suspected attackers. president obama warning the world is watching as concern grows as the crime scene, the area where the plane was brought down is being compromised. our coverage of the crash begins with nic robertson. what is the latest this morning? >> reporter: just 121 bodies recovered so far. 95 search and rescue people involved by the government in kiev. they are using 18 vehicles to get around but they are hampered in the beginning of the investigation by the fact the debris is strewn over such a large area. because the government doesn't control the area, they are hampered by armed separatist groups on the ground. we have seen evidence that the crime scene, as it's called, has been tampered with. there's a possibility of debris and wreckage being removed. the ukrainian government already established a committee to begin an i

. >> i'm john berman. a lot going on. monday, july 21, 4:00 a.m. in the east. one by one, the innocent victims of flight mh17 are being removed from the crash site. pro-russian rebels piling the bodies into refrigerated rail cars. this is triggering outrage. vladimir putin thinks it should unite it, not divide it. is he doing the dividing? that is the key. he's slamming drunken separatists controlling the crash site now. the same separatists claiming they have recovered the downed jet liners data recorders. a lot to discuss. i want to bring in ivan watson from ukraine. give me the latest. >> reporter: that's right. we are hearing intermitt tant thuds of artillery from donesque. it's a stronghold city. officials from leadership are telling us they believe ukrainian government tanks and armored carriers are trying to punch through north of the city in the direction of the railroad station. the mayors, the city mayor's website put out a warning to residents online saying stay away from the north of the city from the railroad station area, which is only four or fiv

i'm john berman. >> and i'm michaela pereira. those stories and much more right now at this hour. >> so this is supposed to be or was supposed to be the final hour of israel's temporary cease-fire in gaza but as you just heard we are hearing explosions. the israeli military authorized what it called a humanitarian window set to last four hours. they said it does not apply to areas where their soldiers have been operating. announcement came on the heels of the deaths of 19 people when a shell hit a u.n. school where palestinian families had taken revenue. >> some 1283 people in gaza are now confirmed dead, deaths on the israeli side stands at 56. the israeli spokesman joins us. we want to talk about this humanitarian window. we understand that there was supposed to be an hour left in this window of opportunity to sort of get some people out. some supplies in. already we've witnessed and her and seen several explosions just in the past few minute. it sounds as though this cease-fire is over. >> well, the truth is we announced earli

. >> i'm john berman. it's wednesday, you've made it this far. july 16th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> we do bin with the new round of bloodshed in gaza. hamas militants ignoring cease-fire, firing new missiles across the border. israel stepping up air strikes on hamas targets, warning civilians to clear out. more than 200 palestinians have been killed in gaza. and really there is no end in sight to the violence. israeli president simon perez insisting that hamas will have to back down before the bombings send. karl penhaul live from eastern gaza this morning, karl, residents are being told get out for your own safety. >> reporter: absolutely, john. i wanted to bring you here to show you really what is going on. right now, we can't go too much further into the neighborhood as you see just behind the israeli air campaign is under way. these are the neighborhoods in the eastern gaza strip that the israeli military are dropping leaflets on last night. they're also making the so-called robocall, the automated voice calls, to tell residents get out your your own safety. this

cnn's john berman has more for you. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: chaos in northern california as a violentends in a barrage of gunfire, leaving one bank customer and two suspects dead. the events unfolded as three heavily armed men entered a bank, tied up a security guard and took three women hostage, before taking off in a stolen suv with the police in hot pursuit. >> ram him if you need to to stop him or hit him or something. if you can stop him, stop him. >> reporter: the suspects had huge amounts of ammunition on them, according to police, who said the men had firearm magazines strapped to their bodies and fired on the officers relentlessly. >> there's a guy number two male sitting out the back window with a rifle. we are taking fire. >> reporter: under the hail of gunfire, two of the hostages either jumped or were pushed from the suspect's vehicle. the witness managed to capture one of the moments on tape. >> she was on the ground, my brother saw her roll over and her leg was tore up and bleeding. >> after more than an hour the suspect's suv was disabled but that didn't stop the men w

i'm john berman. >> i'm poppy harlow in for christine romans. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. there is no end in site to the deadly violence raging between israel and gaza. the fighting between israel and hamas intensifying. an explosion at a refugee camp killing ten palestinians, eight of them children. another blast. hamas blaming israel for both attacks. the israelis insisting they did not fire in that area. conflicts for a cease-fire are fading fast. the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu vowing it will be a lengthy campaign. let's go karl penhaul in gaza. karl, you were on the air last night here and there were moments you stopped speaking so people could hear the explosions behind you and we heard the loud, loud drones, the israeli drones over the area. what have you seen in the hours overnight? has there been a lull in this intensified fighting? >> reporter: you are actually right, poppy. we worked silent to allow viewers to hear what was going on in the air around us. there were also times when we had to

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it's 30 minute past the our. we welcome our viewers from the u.s. and around the world. black boxes from flight 17 have been turned over. a crucial development from investigators trying to determine who blew the boeing 777 out of the sky killing nearly 300 people on board. president obama is not satisfied investigators are getting the full access they need at the crash scene. >> unfortunately, the russian backed separatists continue to block the investigation. they have repeatedly prevented international investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage. as investigators approached, they fired their weapon sboos the air. the separatists are removing evidence from the crash site. what exactly are they trying to hide? >> meanwhile, russian president, vladimir putin distancing himself. he's trying to suggest the downing of flight 17 was nothing more than a mistake. >> according to them, the people are saying -- there was confusion. there was confusion not an act of terrorism. >> moscow keeps up the spin campaig

i'm john berman. >> and i'm michaela pereira. it is 11 a.m. in the east. 8 a.m. in the west. accusations thrown, denials given, promises made, and bodies moved. there's a whole lot going on. >> this is what we know right now. a grim arrival by train at a ukrainian town. the bodies of 282 of those on board the flight now out of rebel hands. the first remains expected to arrive back in the netherlands tomorrow. pro russian rebels also handed the planes black boxes to malaysian officials. these of course could hold key evidence about what happened to this flight. now there's international flavor here. britain agreeing to help dutch investigators get data from these black boxes. >> also a new image from the pentagon shows the trajectory of the missile that took the plane down. you can see the plane has a yellow line coming from the left. the missile is on the green on the right. the ukrainian officials says he is certain a russian officer personally pushed the button. >> meantime, russian president vladimir putin promises to use his influence with the rebels to push for a full in

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. 30 minutes past the hour.iewers here in the united states and around the world. and we're starting with new accusations against the pro-russian rebels in eastern ukraine. malaysia's prime minister claiming that these investigators are still interfering at the crash site. you look at it it's clear the scene is badly tainted, contaminated. investigators confirming that they found the plane's cockpit sliced open by a diesel-powered saw. in the united states, the white house turning up the heat on months yao, insisting the russians responsible for the conditions that caused this tragedy. >> we know for months now, heavy weapons have been moving across the border from russia into ukraine. we know that the russians have been training russian-backed separatists in the use of those weapons including anti-aircraft weapons. we know that the separatists have claimed credit for shooting down three different aircraft in the last several weeks. >> we're going to phil black live in donetsk in ukraine. phil, let's start with

i'm michaela pereira. >> i'm john berman.ght now. >>> the top republican in the house gearing up to sue the president of the united states. now, laying out the stakes. the speaker says he'll go to court over obama's signature health care law. claims the president made key changes without consulting congress. the white house calls it all a political stunt. >>> also this hour on cnn, a 26-year-old model now charged in the death of a google executive. but it was not the first time her companion allegedly overdosedn

i'm john berman. michaela pereira is off today. a hectic morning with two major stories breaking at this hour, both involving conflict with innocent civilians paying with their lives. israel raising the stakes sending tanks into gaza suggesting it will widen its boots on the ground with hamas. >>> the other story, major condemnation, the downing of a passenger jet in ukraine. at least 300 people from ten nations killed. president obama will be speaking about this at this hour. you can see this live at 11:30 eastern time. who shot down malaysian flight 17 out of the sky, why did they do it and will they be held accountable? these are all questions we will address at this hour. these are the latest details cnn has learn from our sources all around the globe. u.s. intelligence officials concluding that pro russian rebels likely fired the missile that brought this plane down. just a short time ago, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha powers delivered a fascinating speech to the entire floor saying the u.s. cannot rule ou

john berman here in for anderson, and breaking news tonight. late word on tropical storm arthur, gaining strength for a run from florida to maine. also tonight, what the folks here did to make it harder for you to find out about their first class junkets. just when you thought congressional approval ratings couldn't drop any lower. plus, one of america's least reliable friends going into the iraq war resurfaces. and just like then, he wants to run the country. the question tonight, is ahmed chalabi doing this administration what he did to the last? we do begin, though, with the breaking news, tropical storm arthur, the first of the season, predicted to become the first hurricane of the season too. and the path it is on could send it straight into sandy territory, right up the eastern seaboard. seconds ago, the national hurricane center released an update on the storm and where it's headed. let's get down to atlanta and chad myers crunching the numbers for us. chad, so how big is this, archer? and where is it going? >> earlier today, it was noth

john berman is here. chris is off this morning.raeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu making a move to break the latest cycle of violence reaching out to the father of the palestinian teen who was burned alive calling it a despicable murder. several suspects are in custody in what's believed to have been a revenge killing. all of this as shocking cell phone video surfaces showing the dead teen's cousin being beaten by two men in israeli border police uniforms. the surge of violence discovered a week ago with the discovery of these three veil teenagers in the west bank. diana magnay is in jerusalem with the latest. >> reporter: that 15-year-old u.s. teenager tariq khedir, so badly beaten in the video you've shown, he left police custody yesterday, his face very, very badly bruised from the vicious kicking that he suffered at the hands of israeli police. he's facing charges, but those charges are as yet unspecified. he's now free, but on bail and under house arrest for the next nine days. the u.s. state department has made it very c

john berman is here and also christine romans here handling the headlines. have the team with me here this morning new this morning, house speaker john boehner ready to battle it out with the president. gathering up to hit the commander in chief with a lawsuit saying that president obama violated the law what he made changes to his health care law. on top of that boehner is blaming the president for the border crisis. president obama though not taking it sitting down. he is snapping back, claiming republican leaders need to step up with solutions, not complaints. jim acosta has more from the white house. kind of ramping up into a whole new level of back and forth, isn't, it jim? >> reporter: absolutely. just when you thought you've seen everything here in washington, that's right. the white house reaction to house speaker john boehner's lawsuit was swift and harsh with press secretary josh earnest calling it a political stunt. a new day in washington when dysfunction here is headed to the courthouse. it's a constitutional collision between both ends of pennsy

the president never said no. >> excellent point, john berman. >> berman starts another conspiracy. >> "the huffing post" "in politics there are always a few naysayers around. thanks, john. they tried. >> there's a main line publication there, get it? never mind. >>> moving on coming up next on "new day" a battle is brewing in idaho. gay veteran is suing after she was denied burial next to her late wife. this morning she's speaking out to us about the case. >>> why did david letterman walk out during his interview with joan rivers? hmm. we'll tell you what happened. really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. 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. ♪ yeah, girl ♪ you know, i've been thinking about us ♪ ♪ and, uh, i just can't

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans, it's tuesday, july 22nd, 5:00 a.m. in the east. we welcome our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. pro-russian rebels in ukraine turning over the data recorders from flight 17. this is a critical development in an investigation that has been stone walled for days. big questions remain. who fired the missile that blew the boeing 777 out of the sky. president obama is not satisfied investigators are getting the access they need to the crash site. >> unfortunately, the russian backed people continue to block the investigation. they repeatedly presented international investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage. as investigators approached, they fired their weapons into the air. the separatists are removing evidence from the crash site. what are they trying to hide? >>> vladimir putin appears to be trying to distance himself from the rebels. listen to his ambassador from the u.n. trying to insist the downing of flight 17 was nothing more than a mistake. >> according to them, the people were saying they shot down the mil

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let's goat john berman. >>> still hope for a deal on eliminating iran's nuclear program even with a deadlineo end in sight. secretary of state john kerry says significant gaps do remain. >>> breaking overnight ukraine says russia shot down one of its jets. kiev says a russian military plane launched a missile strike. the pilot ejected and was picked up safely. meantime, russia is reacting to new tougher sanctions from the united states. russia's foreign minister warning their response will be painful. the new round of sanctions targets russian banks, energy companies and the defense industry. >>> california's death penalty has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. the ruling interprets the executions as cruel and unusual punishment because of long delays and uncertainty. the judge cited the more than 900 people who have been sentenced to die in california since 1978. only 13 of them have been executed. >>> passengers are finally back on dry land after some 16 hours stranded on a casino boat. the escapade was on its maiden voyage when it ran aground by two miles off the georgia coas

john berman sticking with us.ting you go, sorry, we have his legs shackled underneath the desk. >>> following breaking news at this hour, a powerful typhoon lashing japan. typhoon neoguri is turning into the region's most powerful storm in decades. the island of okinawa was hit by the storm with high winds and u.s. military bases have moved their planes off the island. let's go to will ripley, who is live in tokyo, tracking all of the latest. i talked to a storm chaser last hour, will, and he was saying it was something he's never seen before. >> you know, the commander of kadena airbase says this is the strongest storm to hit okinawa in 15 years. one building collapsed, debris is scattered all over the streets. the winds are still ripping in the area even though the storm passed okinawa and the islands nearby, on a course toward mainland japan. if you look at the storm by the numbers, 15-mile-an-hour winds right now, 600,000 people under voluntary evacuation advisories, another 106,000 are still without power, it

john berman joining thus morning. big questions looming in the middle east after a ceasefire between israel and hamas came crumbling down. both sides agreed to hold their fire for part of the weekend. and both sides blaming the other. overnight the u.n. security council called for an immediate end to the hostilities. what are the prospects for a new ceasefire today? martin savidge is joining us from jerusalem with the latest developments. what are you hearing from the ground? >> reporter: good morning, kate. i wish i had better news. over the weekend our hopes were raised with the temporary pause in the fighting. maybe it could be extended. today the fighting goes on. early this morning the united nations security council convening an emergency meeting calling for a renewed ceasefire to allow the delivery of urgently needed assistance into gaza, but neither side accepted, both agreeing to only a few hours of peace andry jekting previous deals for a truce. >> we had a ceasefire, they violated it. now they're violating

i'm john berman. >> and i'm michaela pereira. those stories and much more. right now, "@this hour," fears that the violence in the middle east is about to get worse. israel's prime minister netanyahu sending out this tweet, hamas's rejection of the cease fire gives israel full legitimate si to expand the operation to protect our people. >> israel stopped firing rockets, but hamas did not. so israel has resumed. the prime minister told wolf blitzer that the cease fire was a one sided operation. >> as you said, hamas itself has some problematic statements, hamas runs the gaza trip. it's not a democracy. they rule the strip with an iron fist. if they want to stop rockets being fired, they can do it. so far, they have done not enough. >> does israel expand the operation? does that mean a full bore war is minutes, hours, days away? we're joined by rick francona and david difuri with us and david, israel did stop shooting. hamas did not. did they miss an tun to solve this crisis and why did they let it pass up? >> they certainly did miss an tun, but there's a bit

i'm john berman. michaela pereira is off today.morning with two major stories breaking at this hour, both involving conflict with innocent civilians paying with their lives. israel raising the stakes sending tanks into gaza suggesting it will widen its boots on the ground with hamas. >>> the other

. >> i'm john berman. it's 11 a.m. in the east and 8:00 a.m. in the west. right now, the death toll rising in gaza. palestinian authorities say more than 170 people have been killed after a week of attacks, no end in sight. >> thousands of people are leaving their homes in gaza after israel dropped leaflets before more attacks. our wolf blitzer is at the border between israel and gaza. in fact, wolf had to duck for cover as a rocket exploded near him and his crew. >> no, no, no pictures. don't shoot. we don't know what's going on. but there's some -- did we get the all clear? i'm sorry. okay. we're here on the border between israel and gaza. you can see there was a rocket that just landed. it came in from gaza. we heard it not that long ago. it was a real moment because all of a sudden we were at this area that had been sealed off and the israeli military was not letting us go any further. they said it was sealed off. we were waiting for permission to go through this checkpoint. we hadn't received the permission yet. we heard all of a sudden the rocket expl

. >> i'm john berman. it is 32 minutes past the hour. we have breaking news.g the terms of a cease-fire to end the bloodshed in gaza. hamas has rejected it saying it's not worth the ink it was written with. it calls for israel and hamas militants to put down their weapons after seven days of violence and 200 fatalities. if they can agree gaza's border would be reopened with israel and peace talks would begin in cairo within days. listen to what they told wolf blitzer. >> it's not really an idea. what they are trying to do is the palestinians to help the israelis more. i don't believe this is a political thing to be done. >> this morning, over the last hour or so, more rockets have been flying out of gaza and into israel. karl joins us live from gaza this morning. karl, if the rockets keep going, the question is, how long will israel wait to respond? >> reporter: well, maybe not that long, john. in fact, a couple minutes before we came to air, about a half mile over in that direction, we saw yet another militant rocket flying skywards and heading off toward isr

. >>> i'm john berman. >> and good morning to all of you. couple of the significant developments, the death of a georgia toddler who died in a baking suv. a short time ago investigators released 16 new search warrants in the case against the child's father. among things they are now looking for, medical records for both the father justin ross harris and cooper the son who died after his father left him in a georgia car in sweltering georgia heat. they are also looking for the computer-related things. but as the investigators build the case against the father, some of the attention is shifting now to the child's mother. >> let's bring in nick valencia. give us an idea of these new warrants. >> for as many pages as we got this morning, it didn't reveal too many details we didn't know already. they are looking at the coop are harris's medical records to see how the child was developing. just 22 months old when he died. also looking into the justin ross harris, his father. as well as an sd card, external hard drive and the home. he failed to sel

. >> i'm john berman. i want to show you right now live pictures again. this is eindhoven in the netherlands th right now. this is the air field where some of the victims of the flight mh-17, disaster, crime, whatever you want to call it, in a very dignified and poignant ceremony that's been going on for some time. we're going to keep our eye on this and watch it throughout the hour. these bodies are being placed in hearses in another town where they will be processed, the bodies will be examined and returned to the families who have been waiting for them now for much too long. >> 192 dutch citizens lost in that downed flight. a nation in mourning, to be sure. >>> other news at this hour, the faa is under pressure after a very controversial decision. in the next few hours, maybe in fact the next few minutes, faa officials will decide whether to lift a ban to u.s. flights to the israeli airport. >> flight suspensions were ordered yesterday after a rocket fired hit about a mile from that airport. despite that, secretary of state john kerry flew there. we kn

. >> reporter: that's exactly true, john berman and as you might notice, i have a one on my chest, fourne. here is why, it's the number of goals we scored. that sucks. it's also the number of unity and i believe the country is more together than ever. it's also representative of one nation, one team and for me, that's the take away of the world cup is that the u.s. soccer team has captured the hearts of the country the way it never had before and lastly, it is the number of tim howard and as you well know, as a soccer fan, this was the stuff of history he did tonight, not just the numbers, 16 saves and i think that's low but how he did it. many shots against men unguarded. he did it with hard shots. he did it in critical moments. he's the man and i believe a personification of the team. he's big, bold, strong and about commentme commentment, respect. >> he played out of his mind, and the key as you mentioned, didn't give up. the team didn't give up. they fell behind 2-0 in the over time and i think everyone in the world thought this game was over, it was cooked. then they came back and

. >>> good morning, and welcome to "@this hour" with john berman and michaela pereira. about the situation in ukraine. let's listen in. >> we meet today less than two week after malaysian airlines flight 17 was tragically shot out of the sky in the separatists' controlled territory of ukraine and the victims of that crash and their families clearly deserve a thorough international investigation that is unimpeded in any respect so that people have access to the site, so that the families can know that their loved ones have been treated with the decency that any family anywhere in the world would expect in these circumstances. the united states supports a thorough international investigation into this heinous act, and we support the efforts of the malaysians, dutch, and australians, to help the ukrainians in order to secure the site so that those investigations can take place now. they are overdue and it is absolutely important for the separatists to stand back and permit this access to take place. the work of the investigators is absolutely critical. it's been ten days s