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KYW CBS This Morning Saturday July 26, 2014

Israel and hamas agree to a 12hour pause. The military said it would hold fire but would continue searching for tunnels. A push for a ceasefire is just an illusion. Both sides are not prepared to stop this war. Dramatic moment as a s. W. A. T. Team storm a canadian airliner that appeared there was a bomb threat. The kids were scared. I was scared. Two men carjacked suvs and plowed into a group of people killing three children. Were asking for the publics help as there were three males seen fleeing the scene. This wall of dust was almost 3,000 feet tall. The annual lumberjack championship is being held this weekend. Lumberjack and lumberjill compete in log rolling to climbing to sawing. Quite a storm of controversy while talking about an nfl player. 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. Two wars planes falling out of the sky, weird al yankovic has the number one record. Thats as sign of the apocalypse. Welcome to the weekend. We also have a great lineup of guests for you this morning including chef alex garcia. Cuban born and a leader in the latin cooking movement. Theyve been mainstays on the alternative rock circuit for 20 years. The eels perform. Palestinian civilians are caught in the shelling and crossfire. This morning they are observing a ceasefire. The 12hour humanitarian effort allowing palestinians to stock up on supplies and to survey the devastation of nearly three weeks of fighting but 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 the ceasefire. The battle in gaza continues to spill over into the west bank. 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 terminology and context and framework to work through but we are confident we have a fundamental framework that can and will work. Kerry is meeting with other Foreign Ministers this morning to continue discussing a longer ceasefire. This mornings ceasefire is also allowing some palestinians to evacuate to safer areas. We have the latest now from 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 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 when this brief recess from 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, well 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 rubble palestinians say they have recovered more than 80 bodies. Anthony . Barry peterson in gaza city. Nice to see you without flak jacket and helmet today. Lets get more on this. Good morning. We heard in our eye opener say a push for a ceasefire was an illusion. Both sides are not prepared to stop this war. Do you think thats true . Unfortunately, yes. The positions each side has adopted, its so far apart its hard to see even with john kerrys enormous work and sort of remarkable optimism its hard to see how he manages to bring them together. The demands each side are making know this is impossible. Israel wants to eliminate hamas and all kinds of threat coming out of hamas. Thats never going to happen. You can destroy 100 tunnels but the people who built those tunnels will build the 101st and 102nd and cycle will repeat itself. Hamas will not have negotiations until israel lifts the blockade. Hamas has to know thats not going to happen. Its like each side painted itself into a corner of the room but opposite corners. Now the challenge for john kerry and everyone else who is 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 of very fresh. The emotions are very high. You mentioned inches which is almost what this 12hour ceasefire feels like. Its supposed to be enacted this morning. Do you think hamas will actually stop firing . So far, knock on wood i just checked twitter verse before i came in and it seems to be holding. Hamas needs to regroup a little bit. This has been a terrible pounding theyve taken over nearly three weeks. And israel is concerned they may regroup too much. Right now it would appear as barry reported there, the palestinians who live in gaza are counting the costs a little bit and digging bodies out of the rubble. Well see. Its a little hard to predict hamas. Theyre not a rationale actor, if you like not always. If theres a middle man here and its hard for the u. S. To be a middle man sometimes in this obviously. If theres a middle man and in the past egypt would play that role but its harder now for them. If not egypt, who . Turkey and qatar are speaking for hamas at the peace negotiations. Both sides have some connections and theyre both fairly credible. They have in the past particularly qatar in the past tried to broker peace deals all over the middle east. The difficulty is to know whether a deal is struck and whether hamas, a, will accept all of it because it doesnt have a seat at the table that gives it a sense of a little bit of plausible deniableilitydeniability. Will they live by it . History says they wont. Interesting big picture perspective. Thank you so much. To another major trouble spot in ukraine and new claims that russia is planning to escalate the conflict there. The u. S. And ukraine say russia is now bombarding Ukrainian Forces from russian soil and they are preparing to shift more heavy weapons including tanks across the border. Lets get more from mark albert in our Washington Bureau. Mark, good morning. Good morning. In addition to the new weapons, a key u. S. 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 on friday u. S. Ambassador to nato revealed an apparent russian build up. Now up again over 15,000 Russian Troops amassed along the border with ukraine. The large amounts of training funding and support russia has given the rebels. This is civil war by proxy if you will. The instability generated largely by moscow and by putin. Reporter it may be about to intensify. The pentagon said friday it believes transfer of heavy caliber utility systems from russia to rebels is eminent. The u. S. Also says Russian Forces are now firing at ukraines military from inside russia which underlined white house calls for new punishment. Press secretary josh earnest. It certainly is 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 having an impact on the economy. President putin can become isolated from the Economic System if he wants to continue the escalation or he can do the opposite. In a direct response, russian Russians Foreign Ministry called her out by name saying she chopped a big basket of antirussia cliches as part of a Smear Campaign against russia and that washington shares the responsibility for the bloodshed in full. Anthony . Mark albert in washington. Thanks. For more on whats happening in ukraine, we turn to peter baker, the New York Times chief White House Correspondent in our Washington Bureau. Peter, good morning. Good morning. What does this latest move by putin, the firing of rockets from russia how does that change the situation here . Were seeing this war is turning a proxy war into an actual war. Russian troops are increasingly directly involved and what that does is underscores for europe and the United States the consequences of whats happening there in hopes that Malaysian 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 they wont match firepower. What can we do to make this an even fight . There isnt any appetite for that. There could be other forms of helping ukraine, intelligence sharing, that sort of thing. The administration has talked about nonlethal aid like flak vests and night vision goggles and 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 an escalatory nature. Is there evidence the sanctions are working . Theyre contributing to a broader sense of instability for russias economy that is in fact hurting russia. Russia does react to sanctions but so far it hasnt changed putins calculus. Can you find something that would change his behavior without hurting european economies which are so tied into russias . Do you think it will take 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. 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. There has to be some way for him to find a face saving way out and so far nobody has found that. Peter baker, thank you for your time. Thank you. The escalating conflict in ukraine adds to difficulty of investigating Malaysian Airlines flight 17 disaster. Mark phillips reports from the crash site. Reporter its the full teams of aviation crash 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 last few days and learned theres more work to be done to find hard evidence of the cause of this crash. They are also still making more grizzly discoveries. 100 passengers are still unaccounted for. Michael from 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 there 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 systemically 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 in ukraine. Investigators arrived today in the west african nation of mali where a jet crashed on thursday. Its being guarded by more than 200 soldiers from a u. N. Peace keeping force. All people aboard the jet were killed. Many were french nationals. Investigators say the crash 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. Hefleyavy heavily armed canadian 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. It was just awful. 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 allegedly made threats to a flight attendant. According to one u. S. Officials he said i have a bomb and i will blow up canada. The captain of the jet flying at 33,000 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 safely. Sources say the suspect who has a history of meantntal problems was arrested without incident. Bomb threats are common. Weve heard of five threats against u. S. Transit targets in the last three days. For cbs this morning saturday, bob orr, washington. Philadelphia police this morning are hunting inging for two men that fled after crashing a carjacked people 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, you need to turn yourself in. Thats my son. You took them away from me. Turn yourself in. More than 100,000 in rewards for capture of the suspects. Triple digit heat in Southern California and destructive storms in the great lakes, ohio valley and northeast this weekend. We go to our chicago station for a look. Good morning. Good morning. 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 96. Dallas, 100 degrees and in lexington, a high of 91 degrees. So some pretty hot areas across the country. Along with that threat of severe weather. A slight threat from omaha all of the way through ohio and 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 to the east where we have a light risk from vermont and New Hampshire all of 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 thanks. Later in the broadcast, the devastating effects that a prolonged drought is having on a major source of Drinking Water in the west. Speaking of extreme weather. Look at this video. In phoenix, a summer thunderstorm produced this wall of dust. It forced drivers to pull to the side of interstate 10 during the friday afternoon rush hour. It was about 50 miles wide. So bad this actually affected flights. Amazing. Time to show you some of this mornings headlines. The times of london says American Special forces are trying to determine whether islamic militants in Northern Iraq have obtained surface to air missiles like the one that apparently brought down Malaysian Airlines flight 17. The pentagon is concerned isis fighters could be tempted to target a commercial jetliner. A popular london to asia air route passes over the city of mosul in Northern Iraq a militant stronghold. The Los Angeles Times reports congress unraveled one form of gridlock before its summer break and youll be happy. The house backed the senates bipartisan plan to allow consumers to unlock their cell phones when switching providers. The president is expected to sign the bill which enables users to own access to the content of their phone without the need for corporate permission. Londons daily mail says organizers of comic con have a real life problem on their hands. A quarter of the women wearing costumes at events said in a recent survey theyve been sexually harassed while attending the pop culture conventions. Attendees of this weekends gathering in

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