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His family, just to be cut away like that makes it all the more a tragedy, not forgetting the three beautiful children. >> the three beautiful children. 298 beautiful lives, no doubt, on that flight. matt, are you getting the answers that you want this morning about what went on in that sky over ukraine? >> well, i think its such an unusual incident that no one really can make sense of it at the moment. certainly the news feeds were getting in australia from our government very good and informat...

Across western and thats where the tragedy took place. why was it taking that route? it had on different days taken different routes. on that day for various reasons whether it was taken a northern route. if this flight plane was entirely planned in advance, this wasnt made up at the moment. it was the flight path of being on airway l980 that was the flight plane it had taken. closer analysis of that flight plan shows it was an open airway. the international organization you and i have talked ab...

Later in the show. maciaela is on assignment and were following two stories. wolf blitzer is on the ground in israel as they launch a ground offensive. the military trying to close off tunnels. well get back to wolf in just a second. hell cover all of that for us. but, first, we must begin with the stunning realization according to a senior u.s. official that it was a missile that brought down flight 17 over a rebel-controlled part of eastern ukraine. >> 298 people were on that flight when it wa...

You can say some of the seprists may have had military training prior to this, we dont know this or provided by the russians or, worse-case scenario, you have a russian crew using this equipment. the fact that theyve taken this equipment out of there tells me that theres something in that system that they dont want us to see. >> a signature they dont want us to know much about. >> i want to get over to richard quest. we heard from the ground those eyewitnesses there. they keep talking about the ...

Watch to vote with xfinity on demand. for this summers top 100 shows and movies. and remember, the only thing to fear is fear itself, and spoilers for shows you havent seen yet. global...pandemic. ♪ mh17 malaysian airlines flight 17 shot down over ukraine. it was a crime. there are questions this morning about who shot it down and why but we cannot forget that it is a tragedy. especially for the families of the 298 people who were onboard that flight. this morning, they are mourning their re...

One ukrainian official is calling an international war crime. calling for the people to be tried for this, for this shooting down of the malaysian airlines flight mh17. so, at the moment, this is not just, not just evidence for the government, but theyre saying this could be evidence that could be used against those very people you hear speaking, whether or not it was an accident, theyre saying these people are culpable and should pay a penalty and should face justice, john. >> now, nic, let me ...

We have been doing that in an v escalating way and we have to make sure we do so with the information that we have and, again, balancing it with a delicate relationship we have with russia where they are a member of ours. >> we want to bring in wolf because we also want to, sorry to hit you with all the news that weve got. real quick, do you have word yet that any americans were on this flight? >> at this point we dont know if there were americans on the flight. my conversations with the state d...

But if you will, rumor, that there was another flight on the track belonging to the russian president, that is not something that has any currency that were hearing in kiev, the capital of ukraine at the moment, kate. >> absolutely important to point out those contradictions when were hearing them because were sure hearing a lot of different reports. mary schiavo and nic robertson and were going to have much more covering of this tragedy on the show but also coming up next on "new day" the other...