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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 the priorities and the aftermath of the Airline Crash in the ukraine. The priorities, learning the ...

Some cases, is intensifying. >> even after yesterday's incidents? >> i don't know of any big delta between their support from yesterday to today. we haven't seen any sign that it's not -- that it's stopping. yes. >> admiral, there had been -- previous to yesterday's tragedy, there had been two or three, at least, ukrainian transport planes shot down. does your intelligence and your knowledge indicate the system that shot down the plane yesterday was a more powerful, more sophisticated system requiring more training, or was it similar to the system that was used to shoot down the ukrainian tran...

And technical assistance. >> they didn't just do it on their own? >> it strain e eed crew duality think it could be used without assistance. >> you have evidence of that? >> we want investigators to do their work. i don't have an indication now that a system was brought over and we don't exactly know who is responsible for firing that missile or with -- or with what assistance. what i'm saying is that system is fairly sophisticated. >> so what is the level of their training and assistance? does it include russian forces going across the border into ukraine to work as advisers or trainers side ...

Into. i don't have any great visibility on what brought them down. but i'd like to just kind of bring you back to the larger point here. that these aircraft are being shot down. and while it's unclear exactly who's pulling the trigger here, it's pretty clear it's doing nothing to deitescalate the tension inside ukraine and to bring to this crisis a peaceful resolution. now innocent people simply flying from one city to another have been killed. and brought into this. so let's not lose sight of the big picture here. it matters a lot less, you know, exactly what system it was and a lot more that...

Reasoning that went into this. that's for the investigators to figure out. we simply don't have that level of detail at this point. ma'am. >> -- normally friend or foe measures on systems like this? if it was an accident, would that reveal a dangerous lack of training on the part of whoever was using it? >> i don't know yet. i'm not an expert on that system. i wouldn't begin to get up here and try to dissect it for you. investigators are going to pile through this. >> exactly who are these investigators? >> it will be -- it's an international investigation. >> does it include dod, does it incl...