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KPIX CBS This Morning Saturday July 26, 2014

The start of a temporary ceasefire, explosions in gaza city. Israel and hamas agree to a 12hour pause. The Israel Military said it would hold fire but would continue searching for tunnels. Push for a ceasefire is really just an illusion. Both sides are not prepared to stop this war. Dramatic moments as a s. W. A. T. Team stormed a canadian airliner. It appears it was a bomb threat. Heads up heads down the kids were scared. I was scared. Two men carjacked slammed into a group of people killing three children. We are asking for the publics help. We have two males that were seen fleeing the scene. A huge dust storm blew through phoenix during rush hour. This wall of dust was almost 3,000 feet tall. The annual lumberjack championship is being held this weekend. Lumberjack and lumberjills compete in everything from log roll to climbing to sawing. Steven a. Smith was created quite a storm of controversy while talking about an nfl player, ray rice. All that lets make sure we dont do anything to provoke wrong actions. And all that matters. After spending more than a decade in prison this dallas man is officially declared innocent. My father god got me through this. Thats all i got to say. On cbs this morning saturday. This is another week where it looks like the world is just falling apart. Theres two wars an planes are falling out of the sky. Weird al yank vic has the number one record so that is a sign of the apocalypse, ill tell you. And welcome to the weekend. We also have a great lineup of guests for you this morning, including chef alex garcia cuban born and now a leader in the latin american cooking movement. Plus they have been main stays on the alternative rock circuit for nearly 20 years. The eels perform in our saturday session. Our top story, a pause in the 19day battle in gaza between israels military and the islamic militants of hamas, with Palestinian Civilians caught in the shelling and crossfire. This morning israel and hamas are observing a ceasefire. Heres the latest. The 12hour humanitarian effort is allowing palestinians to stock up on supplies and to survey the devastation of nearly three weeks of fighting. The time is running out as the two sides were not able to agree on a sevenday truce, and the death toll is rising. Some 900 palestinians and 40 israelis have been killed in the fighting with more than a dozen bodies being discovered during this ceasefire. And the battle in gaza continues to spill over into the west bank. There were more protests and clashes there last night and this morning. A palestinian teenager was reportedly killed during the violence. Secretary of state john kerry is still trying to broker that weeklong truce as a step toward a broader deal. We still have the terminology in the context of the framework to work through. But we are confident we have a fundamental framework that can and will ultimately work. Kerry is meeting with other Foreign Ministers this morning to continue discussing a longer ceasefire. This morning ceasefire is also allowing some palestinians to evacuate to safer areas. We have the latest now from Barry Petersen in gaza city. Barry, good morning. Reporter the ceasefire took effect early this morning, but the fighting continued until almost the last possible moment. The gaza skyline at dawn was outlined in the blast of incoming artillery, and then in the first hours of quiet, a grim necessity to find bodies in the rubble from days of shelling. Rescuers hurried from building to building working against the clock. Others went to their neighborhoods and pored through the debris trying to find what was left in their homes. Some say a few belongings some found nothing. And all over the remnants of the fighting. Across the gaza strip, a brief and welcome normal day. At gazas main market, so many people that it was standing room only. Farmers from outside the city brought their produce, trying to make what money they could in this brief recess from the war. It looked like a normal saturday, but remember that for more than two weeks this has been a city under attack. People hiding inside houses keeping their children safe. A city that felt vacant. And where people had been afraid to drive, there were traffic jams. Even the donkey carts had a hard time getting through. Lines formed quickly at the banks. People need money for supplies and need supplies for what they know will be more days of war ahead. One man expressed it for all. We hope the ceasefire will continue, he said and not go back to the killing and the destruction. God willing, he added, we will have a better situation. The grim toll of death continues. In a strike before the ceasefire, one family was hit. 19 members of the family 10 of them children, were wiped out. As they go through the rubble the palestinians say they have now recovered more than 80 bodies. Anthony. Barry petersen in gaza city. Nice to see you without a flak jacket and a helmet today, barry. For more on the latest mideast situation, were joined by bobby ghosh, managing editor of the online news outlet quartz. Good morning. Good morning. We heard the push for a ceasefire was just an illusion both sides are not prepared to stop this war. Do you think thats true . Unfortunately yes. The positions that each side has adopted are so far apart that its hard to see even with john kerrys enormous work and sort of remarkable optimism its hard to see how he managed to bring them together. The demands that each side are making they must know that this is impossible. Israel says it wants to eliminate hamas, it wants to eliminate all kinds of threat coming out of hamas. Thats never going to happen. You can destroy 100 tunnels but the people will build the 101st and 102nd and the cycle will repeat itself. Hamas says it will not have any negotiations until israel lifts the blockade. Hamas must know thats not going to happen. Nobody, even the people who are negotiating on their behalf must know thats not going to happen, so those two positions, its like each side has painted itself into a corner of a room but opposite corners. Now the challenge for john kerry and everyone else whos trying to bring an end to this violence is to bring them inches forward towards each other and thats going to be difficult. Too much blood has been shed and too recently the wounds are very fresh the emotions are very high. You mentioned inches which is almost what this 12hour ceasefire feels like thats supposed to be enacted this morning. Do you think hamas will actually stop firing . Well so far, knock on wood i just checked the twitter verse before i came in it seems to be holding. Hamas also needs to regroup a little bit. You know this has been a terrible pounding they have taken over nearly three weeks, and israel is concerned that they might regroup a little too well. Too much, yeah. Right now it would appear as barry reported there the palestinians who live in gaza are essentially counting the costs a little bit and digging bodies out of the rubble. But well see. Its a little hard to predict hamas. They are not a rationale actor, if you like not always. Bobby, if theres a middle man here and its hard for the u. S. To be a middle man sometimes obviously, in the past egypt would play that role but its harder now for them. So if not egypt, who . Well turkey and qatar are speaking for hamas at the peace negotiations. Both sides have some connections and they are both fairly credible. They have in the past particularly qatar in the past tried to broker peace deals all over the middle east. Again, the difficulty is to know whether whatever deal is struck whether hamas will a, accept all of it because it does not have a seat at the table itself that gives it a sense of a little bit of plausible deniability. They can always turn around and say we didnt make that promise, qatar did. Secondly if they accept the terms, will they live by it. History suggests they wont. Excellent big picture perspective. Bobby ghosh, thank you so much. Now to another major trouble spot and the new claims that russia is planning to escalate the conflict. Russia is now bombarding Ukrainian Forces from russian soil and are preparing to shift more heavy weapons, including tanks, across the border. Lets get more from mark albert. Reporter good morning. In addition to the new weapons, a key Ambassador Says russia is staging more troops on the Ukrainian Border after pulling thousands back just two months ago. At a Security Forum in colorado friday, the u. S. Ambassador revealed an apparent russian buildup. Now up again, over 15,000 Russian Troops amassed along the border with ukraine. Reporter less overt are the large amounts of training funding and support russia has given the rebels. This is civil war by proxy, if you will. Its instability generated largely by moscow and by putin. Reporter and it may be about to intensify. The pentagon said friday it believes the transfer of heavy caliber artillery systems from russia to ukrainian rebels is imminent. A powerful rocket system is suspected of bringing down mh17. The u. S. Also says Russian Forces are now firing at ukraines military from inside russia, which the white house calls for new punishment. Press secretary josh earnest. Its certainly the position of the United States that additional costs should be imposed on russia and putin for their actions in ukraine. Reporter the state department thinks sanctions are already having an effect on russias economy. President putin has a choice here. He can increasingly become isolated from the International Economic system if he wants to continue this escalation or he can do the opposite. Reporter in a direct response Russias Foreign Ministry called out the state Department Spokeswoman by name saying she, quote, chopped a big basket of antirussian cliches as part of a u. S. Smear campaign against russia. The ministry also said washington, quote, shares the responsibility for the blood shed in full. Anthony. Mark albert in washington thanks, mark. For more on whats happening in ukraine, we turn to peter baker, New York Times wheef White House Correspondent in our Washington Bureau. Peter, good morning. Reporter good morning. Peter what is this latest move by putin, the firing of rockets from russia. How does that change the situation here . Well were seeing this war is increasingly turning from a proxy war into an actual war. Russian troops seem to be increasingly directly involved. What that does of course is underscores for europe and the United States the consequences of whats happened there. There have been hopes that the Malaysia Airlines flight disaster would force russia to back off. That doesnt seem to be happening. In terms of what the United States can do to level the playing field, the Obama Administration has been very vocal saying theyre not going to match fire power, so what can we actually do to make this an even fight . There doesnt seem to be any appetite for that but there could be other forms for helping ukraine, intelligence sharing, that sort of thing. The administration has talked about nonlethal aid like flak vests and night vision goggles. Its going to be the kind of thing where they have to consider in the days to come whether there are additional steps they can take that might be of anss ess escalation nature. The white house say the sanctions are working. Are they . They are contributing to a broader part of their economy which does hurt russia. Russia does react to the sanctions but so far it hasnt changed putins calculus. Hes still in there and intervening so the problem is can you find something that would change his behavior without hurting european economies, which are so tied into russias. Do you think it will be the United States and europe really pushing back for putin to change what hes doing right now . The problem is putin doesnt react well to outside pressure. He tends to react the opposite way. If you push him, hes going to push back. So were in the cycle now where the United States and europe apply more pressure and he sort of defies it and says im not going to give up just because of that so there has to be a way for him to find a facesaving way out and so far nobody has found that. Peter baker, thank you for your time. The escalating conflict in ukraine is affecting the investigation of the crash. Reporter its the full team of aviation experts and security personnel ever do arrive it will be a relief to the handful who are already here. The dedicated but small group of dutch, australian and malaysian investigators have been on the crash site for the past few days and have learned that theres a lot more work to be done to find hard evidence of the cause of this crash. They are also still making more grisly discoveries. About 100 passengers are still unaccounted for. Michael from the osce. Personal belongings passports, i. D. Cards, credit cards, things like that. And the dutch have just documented some very small human remains over there in that field as well. Reporter they are finding more evidence though of the sort of blast holes through the plane that an exploding missile might make. The dutch say their full team will concentrate on this sort of specific find covering the vast crash site systematically would be too difficult. And security arrangements are still uncertain. The issue is whos in charge here. Any deal cut with the Central Government in kiev has zero value here in an area it doesnt control. And as for the rebels who do control this countryside, they havent been around this crash site for days. The war between the rebels and the central Ukrainian Government has been intensifying. The window for getting in here to gather evidence may be closing. For cbs this morning saturday, im Mark Phillips from grabovo, ukraine. Investigators arrived today in the west african nation of mali where an al algerie jet crashed. All people on the jet were killed. Many were french nationals. Investigators say the krarncrash was likely caused by bad weather. U. S. Air force f16 fighters escorted a boeing 737 back to toronto yesterday after a passenger was heard making a bomb threat. That suspect is now in custody as bob orr reports. Reporter a canadian man is charged with endangering Public Safety in a bomb scare that ended with s. W. A. T. Storming a passenger plane. It looked like a commando raid. Heavily armed canadian officers rushed aboard flight 772 at Torontos Pearson airport. This cell phone video shows the s. W. A. T. Team hustling through the boeing 737, barking orders to the jets passengers including sharon ramsey. They stormed in. It was extremely scary. They came in front and back of the plane and they yelled hands up, heads down hands up heads down. And it was just awful. The kids were scared i was scared. Reporter sources say the flight from toronto was about 40 minutes into its trip to panama when a passenger, 25yearold ali shahi allegedly made threats to a flight attendant. According to one u. S. Official he said i have a bomb and i will blow up canada. The captain of the jet flying at 35,000 feet over West Virginia notified u. S. Officials of the threat and then turned back for toronto. Two f16s on patrol near toledo were redirected and shadowed the jet as it flew back into canadian airspace. Flight 772 with 183 passengers and a crew of six landed safety. Sources say the suspect, who has a history of mental problems was arrested without incident. While this event drew a heavy Police Response bomb threats unfortunately are common. Weve heard of at least five threats against u. S. Transit targets in the past three days. For cbs this morning saturday, bob orr, washington. Philadelpha police this morning are hunting for two men who fled after crashing a carjacked vehicle into a crowd of people. Three children were killed and their mother critically injured. Police say the two gunmen forced their way into an suv and drove about a mile before losing control yesterday afternoon. They plowed into a group of people selling fruit to raise money for their church. The father and an aunt of the victims called for the suspects to surrender. Whoever did it taking innocent peoples lives. Thats my son, you took him away from me. Turn yourself in dog. Whoever you are, turn yourself in. Rewards are being offered for the capture of the suspect. Severe weather is in store for large parts of the country this weekend, including tripledigit heat in Southern California and destructive storms in the great lakes, the ohio valley and the east. We have some incredible temperatures once again today around the country. Take a look at some of the temperatures that were looking at for today. The forecast highs include 102 degrees for sacramento 107 in phoenix, 94 for Salt Lake City 91 degrees in denver kansas city will see about 96 dallas 100 degrees and in lexington, a high today of about 91 degrees. So some pretty hot areas across the country. Along with that the threat of severe you talked about. We have a slight threat of severe from omaha all the way through ohio. In a moderate risk of severe storms that takes in Central Illinois as well as Central Indiana and Southern Indiana. And the risk here is for large hail damaging winds and even a tornado or two. Tomorrow it moves out to the east where we have a slight risk all the way up from vermont and New Hampshire all the way down into kentucky and tennessee and a moderate risk that takes in ohio as well as parts of kentucky and even West Virginia. So some rough weather is possible this weekend along with the scorching temperatures. Anthony. Ed curran at wbbm tv thanks ed. Later the devastating effects a prolonged drought is having for a major source of Drinking Water in the wes

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