an unidentified official at the department of homeland security was quoted in "the washington times" as saying -- quote -- "the secretary -- that's the new secretary of homeland security -- is not happy about it, and it is not her policy." close quote. instead of enforcing the law, the secretary investigated the i.c.e. officers who were simply doing their jobs. the deputy assistant secretary of homeland security said on a phone call with employers and pro-amnesty groups that -- quote -- we're not doing raids or audits under this administration." that was a huge abandonment of a normal and natural law enforcement procedure to create a lawful system of immigration. right out of the chute, as a direct result in my opinion of promises made during the campaign. not for law enforcement reasons, not for the national interests of the united states. and i -- it goes on. january of 2009. secretary of homeland security janet napolitano delays the everify deadline. she delayed the everify deadline a second time. she delayed the everify deadline a third time. and it goes on. page after page of ac

this is an israeli columnist writing about the secretary's cease-fire plan which unidentified officialsin jerusalem derided as a strategic terrorist attack. that's what israelis called kerry's peace plan a strategic terrorist attack. david ignatius knows this area. welcome to you. we want to begin with this piece in the "post." john kerry's big blunder in seeking an israel/gaza cease-fire. question to you what is the big blunder? >> the mistake that secretary kerry made when he began his effort to get a cease-fire ten days ago roughly was that after meeting initial resistance with this idea of mediating through egypt, rather than double down on that, he instead turned to two countries that really are allies of hamas, turkey and qatar, and began working with them to try to get the cease-fire. in the end he didn't get the cease-fire. it fell apart very quickly last friday and over the weekend as we know with the horrific war continuing. but in some ways more damaging, he in the process undercut not simply israel, which is furious with him as you said in your introduction, but also moderat

citingne news service unidentified court officials reported argentina and holdout creditors led by elliottement may ask for a 24-hour stay on the ruling to allow the payment to go through an provide more time for negotiations. and new poll shows the brazilian president's lead has narrowed with less than three months before elections. to the survey indicates for the first time that she does not have a lock on the runoffs. according to the poll, she would win 44% of the vote in a second against the opposing candidate, who would get 40%. that is your latin america report for this friday. we are talking summer movies in the search for a big hit when bottom line returns in just a moment. ♪ >> is the age of summer blockbusters dead? box office sales fell to their lowest in 15 years for july 4 weekend this year. our senior media analyst joins me from los angeles. paul, welcome back to bottom line. it's good to see you again. >> good to see you. thanks for having me here today. >> is this the natural rhythm of hollywood or does the fact that people have more entertainment options and platforms hav

. >> they attribute it to an unidentified air safety official.t source describes it as massive explosive decompression. cnn has not been able to confirm this report >>> meanwhile, investigators have identified the first victim. >>> there are still many questions to be answered about the flight. much of the blame focus on russia and pro-russian separatists. >> as history shows, the united states has also been part of a tragedy like this and had similar reaction. the images we're seeing now, 298 victims of a passenger plane shot out of the sky. it's happened before. july 3, 1988. what was supposed to be a short, roughly 30 minute flight from iran to dubai ended in tragedy. 290 innocent passengers became victims to ongoing tensions in the region. iran air 655 mistakenly shot down by the american navy ship, the uss vincennes. >> it was a shock, because the russian had shot down a korean passenger plane a few months before, and the u.s. had never done that. so it was shock and disbelief, certainly. >> reporter: and just as we're seeing today, the inci

israel is still keeping the option of a ground invasion on the table according to an unidentified senior officialrespect is very high. israel has called up 21,000 reservists and has approval to call up 8000. israel knows that a ground invasion would lead to higher casualty numbers especially among civilians. there is 212 palestinians killed already in the last 10 days of fighting. the u.n. says half of those are civilians in the latest incident, an israeli airstrike killed four children playing on a gaza beach in gaza city last night. theyli authorities saying are looking into that incident to see exactly what happened. >> thanks. stay safe. >> let's look at novartis. announcing income in the second quarter. it just missed estimates up three percent. a boostings could get from products straight from the pages of science fiction. they're teaming up with google to create a smart contact lens with embedded electronics. let's see what it could do for us. for joining us. pretty phenomenal what has been nowed by the x labs, teaming up with the world's biggest drugmaker. goings something that is to ente

in the girl ran and told a deputy inside about the incident that still unidentified man was arrested. >> american health officials are keeping them from coming to the area. they also tell us how they are bringing her adopted son home. good morning. >>> they will fly out of fso well excitement to be reunited with her son she adopted afew months ago but is also nervous about the spread and the visiter russ -- virus which affected more than 200 people and has killed more than 600 people in ginny and sierra leonia. it is contact with a sick person's blood or body fluids and there is concern it will spread. the biotechnical leave on thursday. she is obviously concerned of the deadly cyrus. >> the timing, people talk about adoption taking years and our adoption rolls complete and it is just a visa we need and that seems like the hardest part now. >> she met with several doctors and disease experts on what to bring and how to protect herself and she is pack being plenty of gloves, masks and medications for her and her son. >>> coming up, why natalie open bought a one-way ticket to sierra leonia and she is getting help f

the chilean government released reports of pictures taken of unidentified flying objects. according to officials, they are genuine, and the government has no explanation for the objects of the scientists are getting a new tool in the fight against climate change, with the launch of a new satellite, the orban carbon sort of tri two. monitoring carbon, helping scientists under the effects co2 has on the changing climate. dr derrick pitts joins us. the o co2, def voted to monitoring carbon dioxide. how will scientists use the information, 22 second. >> scientists want to understand how much carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, what are the point sources and the syncs, the reservoirs, the resources that hold carbon dioxide that bind it up. they want to know these data points so they can get a better picture of the total amount of carbon in the system, and how it flows from one place to the other. they'll study plants on the surface to see how much carbon they are giving off, and they are looking to see how much carbon dioxide is absorbed by well. >> the o co2 has the one scientific incident, a

that after deciding that the practice was a criminal act the unidentified nurse decided to decline his participation according to officials this is the first protest of its kind at the detention center up until now no nurse or doctor has ever refused to to feed a prisoner a spokesperson for the southern command which oversees guantanamo says the nurse is a lieutenant and has been assigned to other duties instead the u.s. military maintains it uses humane methods to keep hunger striking prisoners alive but the human rights commission said it regards force feeding at guantanamo as a form of torture additionally the american medical association president has said that force feeding hunger strike strikers violates core ethical values and fact a recent editorial in the new england journal of medicine urged guantanamo's prison doctors to refuse to participate and that's exactly what we've now seen happen but whether this catches on as a form of protest remains to be seen there are currently one hundred forty nine prisoners still at the detention center thirty four of them are believed to be on hunger strike eighteen of which me

iraqi security officials say more than 50 unidentified bodies, including those of two children were found in a shia village. iraqi special forces carried out door to door raids in search of fighters from the islamic state. we spent the last few weeks reporting on the crisis much here is what was found, beginning in the capital of the kurdish region. >> reporter: it started with an attack by a shadowy enemy. now, four weeks later, a full-blown war has erupted. what that looks like depend on where you go. i'm here in front of the citadel. how do you feel about the independence. independ. >> erbil is peaceful. the effects of war are felt every day. >> how long have you been waiting for gas? >> eight. >> reporter: you've been waitingate hours, since 3am. >> 3am. >> reporter: lines of cars stretch for hours as people wait for gasoline in an oil-rich region of the world. we have been talking to people say they can only fill up about half of their tanks, so they are going to go home, park the cars and come back and do this all again tomorrow. some people don't have gas left, and have to push the

officer stationed at guantÁnamo bay has become the first him prison official to refuse to force-feed hunger striking prisoners. the unidentifiedofficer stance was revealed in the phone call from a guantÁnamo bay prisoner to his attorney. iab,prisoner, abu wael dh said vendors refuse to force-feed the hunger strike or sometimes before -- sometime before the fourth of july. the navy says the officer has been reassigned to alternative duties, away from the prisons detention center. one of the countries most well-known undocumented immigrants has been released. , a pulitzer prize-winning journalist, first came to the u.s. from the philippines in 1993. in 2011, he became a leading undocumented activist after revealing his status in a widely read essay. vargas had recently traveled to the texas border to document the crisis of thousands of central american children fleeing poverty and violence, but says he soon realized he might have trouble leaving with justice philippine passport due to a heavy presence of border patrol agents and checkpoints throughout mcallen. on tuesday as he attempted to fly to houston on his way to los angele

d.ne >>> happening today, officials in berks county will hold newsnr who ofhe disappeared more than 40 years ago. steiffer and her sister-in-l went missi in 1958. two unidentified bodies were found in a field neareading. a positive match came back foot two teens last month. nbc 10 will be at the news conference this morning. >>> today in delaware county, police will hit the streets for a public safety walk. the event will be in chester at 4:00. it's aimed at uniting the community deal with a surge in violent crime. >>> a hearing will beeld on water problems that affected thousands of customers in may. the pennsylvania house con exhumer affairs committee will hear from officials from pennsylvania american water about the boil wer advisory and mandatory conservation notice. more than 18,000 customers, including about 150 restaurants were impacted. this happened after problems at the norristown water treatment plant. >>> there's a big change in airport security to tell you about. it has to do with your cell phone. officials want you to turn it on in an effort to help them cra down on terror threats. >>> and kids wl tell you summer vacation just began but in stores

officially identified. nine years after katrina hit, the city of new orleans still has unidentified remains. it is a science, but not a perfect science. in the direct aftermath of the crash, rebels moved freely throughout the site. >> we don't know where each set of remains actually were recovered from. and that will hamper some of the information that might otherwise be gleaned from the remains themselves. >> reporter: none of this is easy. for the families, or the investigators. we know some of the remains may be charred or fragmented. that degrades the quality of the dna. also, if entire families were traveling together, their dna pool may be gone forever, making matches nearly impossible. no, none of this is easy. but all of it necessary. the primary goal isn't investigative, legal, or even medical for that matter. it is to return the remains home to the people who love them. >> this is a tremendously important humanitarian effort. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, the nets eer lands. >>> dutch frustration fcontinue to grow, and many are turning their anger at vladimir putin's daughter. we

officials say right now there's no specific plot but they are working with unidentified foreign airportspand the passenger screening process. >>> continuing coverage now of an escalating situation in the middle east involving israelis and palestinians. the two sides clashed this evening in east jerusalem. israeli security forces fired teargas and stun grenades at palestinian protesters. the killing of three teenagers sparked the violence, then a another was kidnapped and killed. each side blames the other. >> violent clashes erupted here in east jerusalem between palestinians and israeli police, with protesters throwing fist-sized chunks of stone at officers who are firing back with teargas and stun grenades. >> undercover units are working in order to maintain the disturbanceess and prevent any further incidents from taking place. >> reporter: the fighting erupted after a teen was kidnapped tuesday night. witnesses say the 14-year-old was forced in to a car. his burned body was later found. >> to this moment in time, the main event of the investigation is to look and understand if it wa

the passengers were dutch nationals, but of course officials are still trying to go through the passenger list, so there are still dozens of unidentified nationalities and unidentified passengers at this hour. again, you can just imagine how difficult it is for those families as they wait for word, as they wait for more information, david. >> abc's lama hasan reporting again in this half-hour. thank you. >>> we turn now to the other breaking story and this comes from the middle east, the ground incursion by israeli forces right now under way in gaza, already explosions lighting up the night sky, the pictures coming in. abc's alex marquardt is in gaza where those israeli troops are on the ground. >> reporter: good evening, david. all night israel has been pummeling the gaza strip from the sea, from the air, with tanks around the border. benjamin netanyahu said israeli troops would be going into gaza and accused hamas of violating today's five-hour cease-fire and said they continued to carry out aggression against israel by firing rockets. the mission, netanyahu said, is to take out hamas tunnels that the group uses to launch attacks aga

officially identified. years after hurricane katrina hit, the city of new orleans still has 31 unidentified remains.t is a science, but not a perfect science. in the direct aftermath of the crash, imagine workers, volunteers and rebels move freely about the site. >> we're don't know where each set of remains were recovered from. that will hamper some of the information that might otherwise be coming from the remains themselves. >> none of this is easy. for the families or the investigators. we know the remains may be charred or fragmented. that degrades the quality of the dna. if families were traveling together, their dna pool may be gone forever, making matches nearly impossible. none of this is easy, but all of it necessary. the primary goal is not investigative, legal, or medical for that matter. it is a return of the remains home to the people who love them. >> this is a tremendously important humanitarian effort. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, the netherlands. >> coming up here, the spread of the ebolla virus. >> 40 years since the discovery, it remains a major risk to human health. west africa is

officially identified. nine years after hurricane katrina hit the city of new orleans has 31 unidentified remains. not a perfect science. in the direct after math of the crash emergency workers, volunteers and rebels moved freely about the site. >> we don't know where each set of remains were recovered from. and that will hamper some of the information that might otherwise be gleamed from the remains themselves. >> reporter: none of this is easy for the families or the investigators. we know some of the remains may be charred or fragments. that degrades the quality of the dna. if entire families were traveling together their dna pool may be gone forever making matches nearly impossible. none of this is easy but all of it is necessary. the primary goal isn't investigative, legal or medical for that matter. it is to return the remains home to the people who love them. >> this is a tremendously important humanitarian effort. >> it is worth pointing out that because of some of the contamination that we talked about in the fields it could be harder to analyze the dna and make sure it is a positive and

officially identified. nine years after hurricane katrina hit, the city of new orleans still has 31 unidentified remains.t is a science, but not a perfect science. in the direct aftermath of the crash, the emergency workers, volunteers, even rebels move freely about the site. >> we don't know where each set of remains actually were recovered from. and that will hamper some of the information that might otherwise be gleaned from the remains themselves. >> reporter: none of this is easy. for the families are the investigators. we know some of the remains may be charred or fragmented. that degrades the quality of the dna. also, if entire families were traveling together, their dna pool may be gone forever. making matches nearly impossible. no, none of this is easy. but all of it necessary. the primary goal isn't investigative, legal or even medical for that matter. it is to return the remains home. to the people who love them. >> this is a tremendously important humanitarian effort. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, hilversum, the netherlands. >> joining me to talk about the process of identifying the rem

officially identified. nine years after katrina hit, the city of new orleans still has 318 unidentified remains.ce. but not i an perfect science. in the direct aftermath of the crash, emergency workers, volunteers, even rebels move freely about the site. >> we don't know where each set of remains actually were recovered from. and that will hamper some of the information that might otherwise be gleaned from the remains themselves. >> none of this is easy. for the families, or the investigators. we know some of the remains may be charred or fragmented. that degrades the quality of the dna. also if entire families were traveling together, their dna pool may be gone forever. making matches nearly impossible. no, none of this is easy. but all of it necessary. the primary goal isn't investigative, legal, or even medical for that matter. it is to return the remains home to the people who love them. >> this is a tremendously important humanitarian effort. >> now, it is worth pointing out that because of some of that contamination we talked about in the fields, it could be harder to analyze that dna and

unidentified. ukraine's government claimed americans were among the dead. the u.s. still has not confirmed that. the tragedy, coming on, major blow to the global scientific community as well. officialsay world-renowned aids researchers and activists they were on board that ill-fated plane. they were headed to a conference in australia. a former president of the international aids society and world health organization spokesman confirmed among the dead. bill: heather, here is the timeline. 12:15 local time, sky schipole airport. expected arrival time, 6:15 local time in kuala lumpur, malaysia. five hours into the flight, first report of eastern ukraine of shoot-down and this commercial airliner on the ground. we'll take the map a little closer. ukraine has been a hotbed we've been reporting on more than a year. crime cry, the vote that was taken there, voting to go back with russia. this is donetsk. this is a region, also a city but in this region, about 25 miles, 30 miles from the russian border is where the plane eventually hit the earth with 298 people on board. advance it one time. so many images and they are striking. this is one of them. what appears to be part of the jet engin

unidentified flying object. it was spotted by mine workers saying it was silent, flying low and slow over the area for more than an hour. the chilean officials planes in the sky. it was a beautiful, sun why i day. what do you think, ufo? >> yes. >> absolutely. >> who had the phone? e.t. phone home. >> we are ready to believe you. >>> janice dean is standing by. >> clear skies. >> someone said weather balloon, right? how would you describe the weather in new york today? >> fantastic. >> i think that is very good. one more thing, anniversary today, birthdays? >> anniversary and birthday. >> happy birthday, my wonderful husband. happy anniversary. >> fabulous. beautiful day in new york city. quick look at the temperatures and toss it back in northeast, gorgeous. 67, no humidity in the northeast. 67 in chicago, 70 in minneapolis. going to be warm across the southern plains. then we are saying good-bye thankfully to this hurricane. that would be hurricane arthur just bringing remnant showers across maine and nova social. back to clayton, tucker and anna. >> thank you, janice. >>> up next, the face on a black republican campaign sign painted white