diminishes any type of trust and also makes it look as if these things are happening for a reason. right now you have a situation that could be simply a result of the chaos, unfortunately, right in that area. a lot of heavy fighting. the lack of clarity about what kind of weapons russia is providing to the rebels, what the rebels are capable of. the rebels who are doing things on their own. that s another possibility that if they have those weapons, they could be doing it on their own. this is out of control. and i absolutely agree that this could get much worse. jill dougherty, thanks very much. bob baer, thanks very much to you as well. a huge, huge crisis unfolding in ukraine right now. also the breaking news we ve been following from here in the middle east. israel has now deployed, has moved thousands of its ground forces into gaza. stay with us. stay with cnn for complete breaking news coverage.
learner. how big is this ground operation? we ve amassed over the last ten days substantial force, entrymen, armored corps, artillery engineers all to put together with our intelligence capabilities in order to bring the fight to the hamas terrorists. in the early hours of the morning we met 13 terrorists that had boots on the ground. an unacceptable reality we re not willing to be prepared for a tunnel to serve from gaza to penetrate into israel and let them come into us. we ve taken the battle to them. we won t let them do it again. they will be pursued. you released video of these 13 commandos coming out on the israeli side but then you went in and knocked them out according to the video. are you talking about hundreds of israeli ground forces in gaza right now, thousands of israeli
reporter: unusual day at the white house with all of these global crises unfolds. the president is in new york right now for some fundraisers. but i can tell you upon landing in new york city, the president held a couple of conference calls. the first call was with his secretary of state, john kerry, to talk about not only the downing of the plane but also the situation in gaza. then after that phone call, he convened a separate conference call with his national security team, the cia directors, chief of staff and other top officials about what s going on with the plane crash. the president directing his team to have the firm understanding that there is to be an international investigation at the site of this plane crash. wolf, these calls, just two of many phone call. there s a video of john kerry leaving the white house. i think most notably the phone call with poroshenko, where the president expressed some concern about the integrity of the crash scene there in ukraine, wolf.
more, you know, extremism and so on. they need a solution. i hope the israeli government will give the egyptains a chance. i believe if they continue with this ground assault they will add to the comiplexities. the iz rallies accepted the initial ceasefire, stopped firing into gaza for six hours. hamas rejected it. the palestinian authority president is there. is it too late now? can there be an egypt chan brokered ceasefire? absolutely. we managed to pull it ou, both
trade that went on between gaza and egypt and would like to see the tunnels reopen, which the egyptians have really demolished over the last year. that was a major source of tax revenue for hamas. so unless they can get something that they can hold up to the people of gaza and say this is why nearly 200 of your people, the people of gaza were killed over the last eight days, this is why hundreds of houses were destroy destroyed, at least they will get something out of it because until now, all we ve seen is death, destruction and really no upside for the people of gaza who have been watching and suffering as this back and forth bombardment has been going on. anderson? appreciate it. wolf blitzer, as well. thanks. there is more happening tonight. susan hendrix has the bulletin. videos played in a boston courtroom today show dzhokhar tsarni with a gocollege friend e day after the attack.