Trapped dangling 20 feet in the air on the ninja. What caused this coaster to derail and how the riders had to be rescued. Newsroom starts now. Good morning. Im Brianna Keilar in for carol costello. We begin with the battle over the crisis on the border and a white house offer to meet with Texas Governor rick perry about his concerns over the issue. In a letter, obama advisor Valerie Jarrett writes that the president would quote, welcome the chance to talk to perry. It also invites perry to a meeting with a group of faith leaders in dallas that the president was already partaking in tomorrow. He is going to be, president obama, in texas tomorrow, as i mentioned. He will be there for a series ever fundraisers. Earlier, perry refused to greet the president at the airport, saying it would be in his words, nothing more than a tarmac handshake that doesnt address immigration. President obama still has no plans to visit the u. S. mexico border during his visit and its a decision that has been criticized by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. I hope this doesnt become the katrina moment for president obama, saying that he doesnt need to come to the border. He should come down. Want to bring in cnn senior White House Correspondent jim acosta and correspondent ed lavandera. The Obama Administration talking about some of the concerns about specific policies that are in place. Whats the administration saying here . Reporter they definitely wanted to respond to rick perry. That letter from the Texas Governor came to president obamas desk late yesterday, essentially inviting him to a meeting on this border crisis, saying as you mentioned a few moments ago, a meeting on the tarmac in austin just wasnt going to cut it. The white house very quickly responded, this letter from Valerie Jarrett saying to rick perry that hey, if you want to meet, were willing to do that except they want to do this in dallas. Just to give you a sense as to what the president is going to be doing in dallas, in addition to hosting a fundraiser, he will meet with faith leaders and local elected officials who are looking at plans to convert School Buildings to house some unaccompanied minors and other migrants who have been crossing the border in recent months from central america. That is a key issue not only along the border but also in some of these other cities as some of those migrants are heading north. The president was already planning to have that meeting. The meeting was not previously announced. They were keeping that under their hat here at the white house but decided well, once rick perry offered this invitation, they decided to offer rick perry an invitation to go to that meeting. So we are now waiting to hear what the response will be from rick perrys office. In the meantime, very soon this morning, we will be getting details from Senior Administration officials about this funding request the president is going to be making to lawmakers up on capitol hill for well north of 2 billion, im told by administration officials. It had been reported in various news outlets it would only be around 2 billion. It will be much higher than that, im told. That money is going to be going to really sort of judges and other functions that will be taking place along the border to sort of expedite the process of moving these undocumented immigrants through the system and in many cases, sending them back to their countries of origin. Thanks, jim. Ed, we have seen so many of the clashes over this that are really grabbing the headlines in california but its texas i think that is so, you know, really at the front line here dealing with an influx of undocumented immigrants. What are things like in texas . Whats the concern level there . Reporter well, i think theres a great deal of concern, and i think a lot of people are simply trying to figure out, you know, given the amount of people, 90,000 unaccompanied minors expected throughout the course of this year to make their way into the united states, the question really becomes how is this going forward, how is this situation going to come under control. I think theres a great deal of concern with that but its also become highly politicized at this point where you have, you know, many immigrants rights advocates who are pushing for the Young Children to either stay here or have them treated a certain way, and then you have many people on the other side who are pushing for quick deportation. So its become highly politicized and highly controversial and its becoming a very intense debate, as you well know. And the tarmac greeting, this is sort of interesting. With perry, we have seen other governors, jan brewer, arizona, use this to give the president kind of a piece of her mind. But this is seen very much as a snub, right, to kind of say im not going to this customary hello, ive got a beef with the president. Reporter you know, rick perry has kind of used these moments several times throughout the course of president obamas administration, whether several times hes gone out to the tarmac and made a point of handing the president a letter so he has definitely in the last five or six years kind of used these moments for rick perry to make the political statements and the political points that he wants to do. Hes never been shy about doing that. Like weve seen in some other states across the country, its become kind of like that lightning rod moment where someone who is opposed to president obama can use that moment to make their point. It is always an interesting moment in these president ial trips. Thank you both. Well, a bizarre accusation by the lawyer for senator robert menendez. He says cuba was behind a smear plot against the new jersey democrat which led to an fbi investigation. Menendez was accused of traveling to have sex with underaged dominican prostitutes and those accusations were picked up by a conservative website, but lets bring in justice correspondent evan perez. We first have to start at what we are now finding out, which is we are hearing from the senators camp and also, it appears, from some reporting, that there may not really be something to these allegations, right . Cnn has looked into them as well and really struggled to find this guy who was the tipster accusing menendez of these things, right . Reporter well, yes. These allegations were shopped around to reporters in washington for some months back in 2012, and then finally, it did get published by a conservative website. Now, i was not able to find any indication that this actually happened and so we never really did anything with this story. The fbi itself had trouble getting in touch with and getting any information from this alleged tipster who had come forward, and so that part of the inquiry kind of went away. But that said, the fbi has an investigation still open against senator menendez, and so that is still something that is intensifying according to sources i have talked to, so this new allegation from menendezs lawyer could be put in that context. It may well be that this is what i call a legal hail mary which is intended to help perhaps throw some doubt into the governments case against the senator. So the sort of seedy parts of this it appears may be he seems to have a case here that the seedy parts are kind of disspelled but this is pretty serious, right . He is the chairman of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee and yet the department of justice is walk us through this a little bit. Its about whether hes used his position to benefit a friend, a donor, a businessman, right . Reporter well, yes, exactly. Theres a couple of different facets to this investigation. On the one hand, hes accused of helping perhaps a donor and a friend who is an ophthalmologist in florida who has faced these allegations over billing of medicare. To the tune of millions of dollars. We are talking several million bucks. Reporter exactly right. Then theres another donor, another family thats been donating money to the senator also for his 2012 campaign, two ecuadorian brothers who are facing charges back in ecuador of embezzlement and they have been fighting extradition. He is accused the senator is accused of getting in touch with the federal government, the dhs and so on, to try to argue on their behalf. Now, its not necessarily illegal for you to advocate on behalf of anyone so the fbi is looking at whether or not there was any quid pro quo, perhaps, or any laws broken in those outreach efforts by the senator. Now, what this lawyer is saying now is that all of these allegations, especially the allegation of the dominican prostitution allegations were really cooked up by cuban intelligence against the senator, and you know, its not something that we have any proof of. We have asked for Additional Information from the lawyer. We havent heard of any Additional Information. So it is something we are going to keep an eye on to see if we have any more indication of what this is about. So its whats cooked up and what may not be cooked up. Evan perez, thank you so much. In chicago, a 19yearold woman is gunned down overnight as she walked down the street with a group of friends. The violence has continued after a july 4th weekend marred by multiple shootings. Nine people killed, more than 60 have been injured by gunfire. The citys police chief says without tougher gun laws, authorities cant keep violent criminals off the streets. George howell is live in chicago. George, it just seems like the violence here will not let up. Brianna, its a difficult problem, no doubt. The police, the people in these communities, they are trying to get their hands around to deal with. You mentioned the 19yearold who was killed and then at least eight other people who were shot monday night. Thats the problem that police have been dealing with along the backdrop of this very, very violent fourth of july weekend. When you go into the neighborhoods, you talk to people, you get a sense that people are frustrated. They want something more to be done. Neighbors question whether police are doing enough. Then you talk to police, and they say look, we are putting more officers in the different communities where they think that they will be effective and these things still continue to happen, especially when the temperatures warm up here in chicago, it is a frustrating situation that police, that officials, community members, are trying to deal with. Mayor rahm emanuel spoke about it. Take a listen. The gun violence that was part of this weekend is totally unacceptable to anybody from the city of chicago. I believe everybody in chicago is part of building what i call a partnership for peace. Reporter so one person that i spoke with in a neighborhood where this shooting happened, he questioned, you know, is it a matter of talk or is something going to happen. Thats really the resounding question that you hear in many of these neighborhoods. Is it talk or will new policies come into play, what will happen to make these situations change. Its important to put all of this into context. Police do point out that by this time of the year, the number of homicides is down compared to last year, so you could say that some progress is being made, but certainly its a problem that everyones trying to deal with here. Yeah. What is a partnership of peace, how do you achieve it . All of these outstanding questions. George howell, thank you very much. Still to come, tensions brewing in the middle east after the murder and kidnapping of israeli and Palestinian Teenagers. Now the Israeli Military is calling on reserve forces to beef up its presence around gaza. We have the latest. Diana . Reporter thats right. We have just been hearing the red alert right behind me. There are bombs of israeli air strikes in the distance. We will tell you about operation defensive edge in just a few minutes. [ female announcer ] its simple physics. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. While a body in motion tends to stay in motion. Staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. 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This morning, we are hearing from the mother of naftali frankel, one of three israeli teens brutally murdered in the west bank. She offered her condolences to the family of mohammed abu khedair, the Palestinian Teen burned to death in an apparent revenge killing. No mother or father should go through what we are going through now. We share the pain of the parents. The legacy of the life and death of naftali, eyal and gilad is one of love, of national unity. Despite a mothers call for peace and unity, violence in the region appears to be spiraling out of control. Overnight, israel launched a new wave of air strikes and plans to call up 40,000 reserve troops to help beef up ground presence there around the gaza strip. Lets bring in cnns diana magnate. You are near the gaza strip. I can tell, i have been hearing in the commercial break that things are happening there. Tell us whats going on near where you are. Reporter thats right, operation protective shield, you can feel it where i am. In the distance is the gaza strip. Over the last two hours as we have been standing here, you can see israeli air strikes. There are huge columns of smoke that will appear in the distance behind me and a huge bang of the air strike going in. We have had a couple of red alerts which basically is a warning for People Living in this vicinity that when you hear that alert, you have 15 seconds to get to shelter. That is how long it would take a rocket from gaza to reach the area where we are. So a very very narrow radius. This is exactly why the Israeli Defense forces have decided to launch this operation, to stop what they call a barrage of rocket fire from coming out of gaza, a hundred since last night. Lets take a look at what this operation involves. Israel is now at the ready, even sending troops to positions alongside the gaza border. This as rocket attacks between the jewish state and hamas continue to escalate. Overnight, Israeli Defense forces say they struck 50 targets in air strikes across the gaza strip. Israel now launching a clear offensive. Their operation even given an official name, protective edge, using increased targeted air strikes and calling out several hundred reservists to build up troops for possible ground maneuvers. Israels change in tactic comes in response to an uptick in rocket attacks from gaza with some 80 on monday alone. Those strikes forcing hundreds in neighboring camps to be sent back home. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will do whatever is necessary to stop the attacks. The hamas spokesman issuing a battle cry on facebook. The enemy has crossed the red line and will be made to pay the price for its crimes. Hamas even showing off its weaponry in a propaganda video. These explosive scenes of violence just painting a backdrop to the mounting anger in jerusalem. Of the murders and beatings of both jewish and Palestinian Teenagers. What israel says its trying to do with these air strikes is to target the terrorist infrastructure that hamas uses to launch rockets against israel, so concealed rocket launchers, the tunnels they are digging to supposedly launch terror attacks into israel, weaponsmaking facilities, that kind of thing. But of course, however precisely those strikes have targeted, there will be casualties and we now know from our sources within gaza that there have been 16 deaths. Some of those hamas militants but some also civilians forming a human shield on the top of a building against air strikes and the Israeli Defense minister has said this operation will not end in the next coming days. Brianna . Thats the fear, that this is just the beginning. Diana, thank you. Meanwhile, the family of an american Palestinian Teen who was brutally beaten and detained at a protest over his cousins killing has been placed on house arrest. The family of the teen is demanding his release. Its unclear why he is being investigated or really, its unclear if they are finding that he was using any sort of violence against Israeli Police. We are trying to figure out what charges he may face. We want to bring in sahar francis, one of three attorneys for this teen, tariq khdeir. Thanks for joining us. Im wondering first off, israeli authorities have arrested several israeli suspects for the killing of tariqs cousin, mohammad. The protest he was at is because his cousin was so brutally killed. This is a shock to palestinians. They assumed israel wouldnt act. Do you see this diffusing any tension . Go