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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...

2004 in bangkok, talked to him about some of the work they were doing at that time. and he was the president of the whole organization. so gives an idea of the stature of this man, as well. >> a huge loss. globally. dr. sanjay gupta, appreciate it. thanks very much. our extensive coverage of the malaysian flight 17 and conflict in the middle east continues with brooke baldwin after a quick break. and ill be on tonight. the cadillac summer collection is here. ♪

Now there will be a dod rep on this team. >> the president said he saw no role for the u.s. military in responding to this. but what ever happened to that list of requests for equipment that the ukrainians sent at the beginning of this? >> yeah, we continue to review requests for, or ukrainian requests for military assistance. some $33 million that the president has authorized of material has been getting to ukrainian, ukrainian armed forces and border services. the support continues to flow. we...

Designed to change the calculation and presidents putins behavior and decision making. what youre -- seep m to think what youre suggesting -- [ inaudible ] i have no information thats the case. >> second question, whats the working theory about the intent? was this an intended military target gone awry? or was this simply an act of terrorism perhaps? >> we dont know. again, thats what weve got to let investigators figure out. we dont know what the motive was here. >> what is your theory? what is...

Fired the missile. were there any indications there were other airlines, perhaps ukrainian military planes, in the sky at that time? also, is there any concern -- the president keeps saying put be wants to stop this, he can. are there any concerns perhaps this is a situation that is poised to spiral out control and perhaps russian doesnt have the control of the separatists and, if so, how are you preparing? >> on your first question, i dont know. this is ukrainian airspace. i remembfer to them t...

Crash/crime scene like this? >> yes, i have. >> in terms of the different actors in play. >> yes, pan am 103, september 11, klo-7, and with the residue on the bodies and the plane, but now youre in an international criminal man hunt. >> and in the midst of conflict. >> in the midst of conflict and how theyre going to secure even -- and the workers to come in and retrieve the bodies, they need to have security. they dont want to be harmed in that process. >> mary schiavo, david soucie, rick franc...

Communications. gear. part of a package of more than $33 million now that the president has approved and that stuff continues to flow. >> listening to a spokesman at the pentagon. 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 dont foe ...

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 ...

Equipment, including anti-aircraft missiles, are coming from russia. were just learning now that the working theory of u.s. intelligence now is that this missile system, which both u.s. and ukrainian officials believe was responsible for taking down this passenger yet, this buk system weve talked a lot about, anderson, that it was supplied to the rebels by russia. that would be a shocking revelation if confirmed. because it means russia would not just be indirectly responsible for this, but dire...

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...