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Nearly 130. They say israeli shelling is to blame. All this game after the u. N. Said more weapons was found in one of its schools in gaza. This is the third time this has happened in the current conflict, but overnight shelling was not at that same facility. Lets if to john voss watching whats going on if gaza city with all the latest developments. Another brutal overnight in gaza, john. Reporter yeah, wolf. The explosions, the air strikes, the artillery just did not let up. Its continued well into the day here. In fact, just moments ago there was an air strike in that direction of the refugee camp, the same place where the u. N. School is located where at least 19 people have been killed. Gaza officials have told us here that so far in just the past few hours 54 palestinians have been killed. Almost 300 palestinians have died since this Campaign Began 23 days ago. Gaza once again under siege. Five shells hit yet another u. N. School this morning, this time inside the jabalya refugee camp. The attack happened at a time of prayer, according to the u. N. Israel Defense Forces say overnight it targeted 75 terror sites, including five mosques. The idf says its continuing efforts to degrade the Tunnel Networks in gaza. Tuesday the idf released this video of the israeli paratroopers uncovering another tunnel access point and then destroying it. Efforts to secure a crease fire falling through once again, hamas rejecting a proposal for a 24hour truce demanding an end to israels blockade of the gaza strip. The hamasrun Al Aqsa Television aired this video on monday purportedly showing an operation by hamas militants emerging from a tunnel and then attacking Israeli Soldiers. According to al aqsa, ten Israeli Soldiers were killed, while the idf reports five Israeli Soldiers were killed, along with one of the attackers. Cnn cannot independently confirm the videos authenticity. Attacks from israel appear to be ramping up. 13 people were killed, including children, when air strikes hit a refugee camp on tuesday. And gazas only power station up in flames, cutting off electricity for hospitals, Sewage Systems and many of gazas water pumps. And, wolf, palestinian officials here say it could be in fact a year before that power plant here in gaza is operational once again. They cant even get close to it to put the fire out to try to repair it. Gaza without that power plant last night was plunged into darkness. They do pie electricity from the israelis but theres ten transmissions from israel into gaza and palestinians say five, maybe seven of the transmission lines have been damaged by israeli firepower and by hamas rockets so right now theres barely a trickle of electricity coming into gaza. Wolf . Once the fighting stops, there will be hundreds of millions of dollars and probably billions to fix gaza and make it livable down the road, john voss in gaza. Well get back to you. What does israel have to say about all the overnight strikes . Heres mark regev, the chief spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On that power plant you deny israel was responsible for blowing up the power plant and denying electricity to a million palestinians. I know for a fact we were not targeting the plant and we also asked directly the forces in the area, our forces in the area, both the air force and ground force if it was maybe errant fire and everything we said says it wasnt our fire. You have to remember that some 10 of all hostile rocket fire into gaza, those rockets shot by hamas, 10 fall short, land in gaza and cause damage. We saw that with the school that was specifically a hamas rocket. That could have been what happened for the power plant, but we dont know for sure. Is there a full scale investigation that the idf is investigating . Every time Something Like that we investigate to see what happens. Had a about the latest incident, the jabalya refugee camp, all these People Killed there. Was israel responsible for that . Were looking into that. We dont target refugee camps or target civilians. Lets be clear about this. We only target terrorists, hamas command and control, their arsenals as rockets that they shoot us and so forth. We dont know exactly what happened at this u. N. School. Can i say the following. We do know there was a fire fight, that in the immediate vicinity of the school there was combat between our forces and the terrorists, and this is another example of a u. N. Facility being turned into a combat zone by hamas and the other terrorists. You know, yesterday, since we spoke last time there was a third example, the u. N. I saw this on reuters. The u. N. School for a third time being shown to be used as a place where hamas stored its munitions and those rockets being shot at israel, a u. N. School. If it happens once, you can say its an anration, twice you can debate it, the third documented facility of a u. N. Facility being turned into a military facility by hamas. It says something is terribly wrong and it exposes hamas deliberate strategy to exploit u. N. Facilities for its war missions. How close are you to a ceasefire right now, if at all . Rockets have been falling, the fighting continues, and it appears that the diplomacy is still in play, can i say the following. What does that mean, that the diplomacy is still in play . Telephones are being used, conversation are happening. The diplomats are working behind the scenes, but as we can see from this mornings pictures the conflict continues, and israel will continue to act to defend our people against those incoming rockets and against those terrorists trying to come across the frontier in those tunnels. We had heard last night that an Israeli Security Cabinet Meeting was postponed, in part we were told because there was some diplomacy going on behind the scenes. They wanted to convene, Prime Minister wanted to convene Prime Minister once they had a specific proposal. What can you tell us about that . I wont go into what might or might not be discussed in Israeli Security cabinets. That information is confidential. I will say the following. Our aim is to protect our people, that can be done diplomatly, militarily or through a combination of both. The goal remains the same. We will act to protect our people. The israeli civilian population should not have to live in this constant fear of rockets coming in from gaza or terrorists coming across the frontier trying to kill our people. Who is taking the lead right now in the effort to achieve a ceasefire because yesterday, as we reported, there was a statement from the Palestinian Leader all, all palestinian factions were on board for a 24hour ceasefire that could be expanded into a 72hour ceasefire and the military wing of hamas rejected that. Who is taking the lead, the secretary of state of the United States, the special u. N. Envoy, who is doing that . Youre right, what happened yesterday was astounding. The Palestinian Leadership in the west bank announced a ceasefire and hamas said, wait, they dont speak for us. Thats true. Israel is not fighting the Palestinian Authority on west bank. Our conflict is with the terrorists who dont play by the rules, who are brutal in the way they shoot us as and at the same time use Palestinian Civilians as human shields in a very, i would argue, brutal exploitive manner, deliberately putting palestinian lives in danger by putting their missiles in houses and mosques. Who is taking the lead though . The only game in town is the Egyptian Initiative, and i think youve seen the United Nations, United States, the arab league lining up behind Egyptian Initiative. Israel accepted did accept it, two weeks ago. But secretary kerry had modifications attached to it. The Egyptian Initiative is the basis for any move in diplomacy. What does the Egyptian Initiative say, calls for an immediate and unconditional end of all hostile fire and that for us is what should happen. No more rockets on tel aviv, no more rockets on any place in israel and the end of this infiltration through the tunnels. And israel will withdraw its forces from gaza. We say the following. We cannot allow the tunnel threat to continue, and as part of any ceasefire israel reserves the right to continue to act against those tunnels because those tunnels are a real threat to our civilian population. Imagine, wolf, if you lived in the southern part of israel and just worrying the whole time of a terrorist popping up from under the ground with automatic weapons, with explosives, with rocketpropelled grenades and not at your door and terrorists are barging into your house, we have to deal with those tunnels pause they are an immediate threat to our people. Mark regev is the spokesman for the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of israel, thanks very much for joining us. Were told, by the way, by Israeli Intelligence officials they have discovered 31 of those tunnels and have destroyed 15. They dont know how many more they are but they are going from gaza into israel, but they are looking for more of these tunnels. Back to you guys in new york. Wolf, thank you. It just is not getting any better there. Wolf is asking all the right questions and the answers are unsatisfying or elusive on both sides. Until the main points of each side are addressed, occupation on the side of hamas and israel seeing itself as being safe from these types of attacks, youre not going to get any movement. This has been going on for a long time. The oslo accord now is 20 years old. They were supposed to have a deal in place. Let hope that john kerry can get some movement today. Would be nice, thats for sure. A lot of news happening. Lets check in with michaela for whats going on. Something big happening in africa, and its getting more concerning by the day. A doctor leading charge to combat an outbreak of ebola has died from the very virus he was fighting. Dr. Khan risked his own life to treat patients with ebola. He was hospitalized and in quarantine when he died and two American Health workers who tested positive for the virus, they are still fighting for their lives in liberia. Breaking overnight cnn has learned that Sergeant Bowe bergdahl could have his first meeting with the lead army investigator looking into his capture by taliban. Some colleagues accuse bergdahl of deserting. Bergdahl is now back on regular duty at a base in texas. Major problems have been found in a review of decades of forensic testimony by the fbi. The Washington Post reports mistakes were found in nearly every case examined, about 160 of them. Botched testimony could have led to hundreds of false convictions before dna testing became common. The fbi stopped the review last year but resumed this month at the order of the justice department. You can be sure well be hearing more about that. The house is expected to approve a bipartisan bill overhauling department of Veterans Affairs Health Services today. If passed the 17 billion bill will go to the senate later this week, this as an internal audit obtained by cnn reveals that half the askedlers at many v. A. Hospitals say they were instructed to falsify data to hideback logs in providing medical services to veterans. Meantime, a senate panel unanimously confirmed former Procter Gamble executive Robert Mcdonald to head the beleaguered v. A. Weve got to show you this video. An aging 92yearold water main break sent up to 10 million gallons of water on the nearby ucla campus and nearby sunset boulevard. At one point there was a guyser that shot up 30 feet into the air sending baseballsized chunks of asphalt chunking, so much water that the steps of poly pavilion turned into a waterfall. Inside the Bruins Basketball court ruined just a year and a half after a 136 million renovation. Folks in parking lots had to be rescued by swift water rescue teams. At least one person was rescued after being swept under a car. Let me set the backdrop of this. California, the entire state, is under a drought. They are facing Drought Conditions statewide, and to have 10 million gallons of wter, i mean, its just cruel. Big issue is how long it took also. Is that because how much water was coming out . The dwp, department of water and power in los angeles, is getting lambasted for their response. They are coming back and saying, you know, they were trying to find the source of the leak, but that campus is a pretty big campus, and to see that, and the fact that they spent 136 million renovating the pavilion. Covered my share of water main breaks but that one is a doozy. A big one. Take a break on new day. President obama says moscow will feel the pain, europe on board joining the u. S. To hit russia with the toughest economic sanctions. Were going to have a former u. S. Ambassador here. Hell tell us if they make a difference. 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There continues to be a better choice, a choice of deescalation, the choice of joining the world in a diplomatic solution to this situation. And until that better choice is made, president obama says hes raising the stakes against russia. The u. S. And the European Union are going to deal out the toughest economic sanctions against russia since the cold war. They will hinder russias access to Capital Markets for its stateowned pages and weapons makers as well as hindering their ability to tap their oil reserve. Also more people in president Vladimir Putins inner circle are being sanctioned as well. Investigators will try to reach the crash site of malaysia 1 which is still shut off due to heavy fighting from militants in the area. Joining us now is former ambassador thomas pickering. Very good to have you here, mr. Ambassador. Help us understand. These latest sanctions targeting the russian economy, are they of the nature and degree to make a real difference . Chris, i wish i could be optimistic about that. They are part of the gradual escalation in sanctions and springing europeans along with us is accepteding a signal, but there are few signs that Vladimir Putin himself will be affect. Hes talking about more selfreliance. Hes using the whole ukraine effort to boost russia nationalism which has put him up in the 80 popularity ratings. I dont think hes going to sacrifice that soon. There are a few reports of disturbance and unrest inside russia, and in the long term real restrictions on their Energy Supply which are not going to happen soon. Those sanctions are merely cutting off technology flows for developing new Energy Sources are probably going to hurt him. Look at this in terms of months and maybe years, and the europeans themselves will have to figure out whether they will continue to be heavily dependant on russia for gas which is not for these sanctions as well as for liquid petroleum. Is there a better quicker fix . I dont think so. I wish i could say so. Theres some real effort to continue to separate russia from the rest of the international community, the isolation. That may help. It may help to build up some russian backlash,