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Being on. Lets reset at the top of the hour now. Im anderson cooper. Thank you for joining us. Were following two major breaking stories that the hour. The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. And im wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. The other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. A lot to get you up to date on in this hour. President obama today laying out...

Some cases, is intensifying. >> even after yesterdays incidents? >> i dont know of any big delta between their support from yesterday to today. we havent seen any sign that its not -- that its stopping. yes. >> admiral, there had been -- previous to yesterdays tragedy, there had been two or three, at least, ukrainian transport planes shot down. does your intelligence and your knowledge indicate the system that shot down the plane yesterday was a more powerful, more sophisticated system requiring...

And technical assistance. >> they didnt just do it on their own? >> it strain e eed crew duality think it could be used without assistance. >> you have evidence of that? >> we want investigators to do their work. i dont have an indication now that a system was brought over and we dont exactly know who is responsible for firing that missile or with -- or with what assistance. what im saying is that system is fairly sophisticated. >> so what is the level of their training and assistance? does it i...

Into. i dont have any great visibility on what brought them down. but id like to just kind of bring you back to the larger point here. that these aircraft are being shot down. and while its unclear exactly whos pulling the trigger here, its pretty clear its doing nothing to deitescalate the tension inside ukraine and to bring to this crisis a peaceful resolution. now innocent people simply flying from one city to another have been killed. and brought into this. so lets not lose sight of the big ...

Reasoning that went into this. thats for the investigators to figure out. we simply dont have that level of detail at this point. maam. >> -- normally friend or foe measures on systems like this? if it was an accident, would that reveal a dangerous lack of training on the part of whoever was using it? >> i dont know yet. im not an expert on that system. i wouldnt begin to get up here and try to dissect it for you. investigators are going to pile through this. >> exactly who are these investigato...

Suspect that they havent provided some measure of support on the other side of that border. i mean, these paramilitary forces that we dont talk about as much anymore certainly didnt act or behave or -- like some ragtag militia. so nobodys suggesting that russian military advice and assistance hasnt somehow crossed that border. its just unclear exactly how much and when and who. again, thats what the investigators are going to look at. we got to let them do it. >> are we to believe it was just a ...

Know that youve seen the particular video, have you seen evidence that an sa-11 or buk missile system would cross the border at some point from russia into ukraine, and what can you tell us about that system and the sophistication and training that would be needed by russian separatists to actually be able to operate it effectively? >> i dont have specific information about a buk system making that transit. were not ruling anything in or out at this point. it is -- it is a sophisticated -- that ...

Russia. then on the floor of the security council, saying the systems are complicated, its 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 its their working theory at this point that that missile system itself, the actual launcher, came across the border from russia. we have some audio weve obtained, again, from ukrainian officials, seeming to show that that launcher came across the bo...