Fredricka whitfield. Just a short time ago a train carrying the bodies of those who died on Malaysian Air flight 17 moved away from the crash scene the refrigerated train cars are headed to donetsk in eastern ukraine. Thats a volatile rebelcontrolled area. Earlier search teams found the bodies. Many of the bodies are on those cars. Also today, the leader of the prorussian rebels says he has technical devices that might be the black boxes. He says if experts determine the black boxes are indeed the flight recorders, they would be returned or turned over to international investigators. Lets go to phil black at the crash site. Phil, what more are we learning about those black boxes . Well, fredricka this is a key part of international concern. Where are they . Such a key part in determining what happened. One day after the leader of the rebels said we havent touched the wreckage, we dont know where those voice and data recorders are, they now say we have technical items that may be those
Verde will enter the persian gulf. There are 550 marines on board. They could help with evacuating americans who are currently in iraq. Some have already been moved from the u. S. Embassy in baghdad and as many as 100 additional u. S. Marines have now been scrambled there to provide extra security at the embassy. Another measure of this deepening crisis, the u. S. May turn to a long time enemy. In fact, it is considering direct talks with iran, which also shares some grave concerns that iraq could collapse, destabilizing the entire region. Meanwhile, the Extremist Islamic Group isis posted these photos. You can see they seem to show the execution of captured Iraqi Security forces. Isis claims it has slaughtered 1700 of the unarmed men. A statement from the u. S. State department condemns the execution as horrifying and says they show, quote, the blood lust these terrorists represent. Only cnn has the vast worldwide resources to bring you every angle of this rapidly changing story. So o
Worse. The attack in which he disappeared happened as hamas emerged from one of its infamous tunnels of terror. Tonight, israels military releasing this new video showing troops inside gaza discovering yet another tunnel, one of dozens used by hamas to stage crossborder attacks. Hours ago president obama stepped up to the microphones in the White House Briefing room. His intent was to make remarks on the economy. He was asked afterward by reporters to address the latest outbreak of hostilities. The president condemned hamas for breaking the ceasefire and defended israels right to dismantle these Tunnel Networks. The israelis can dismantle these Tunnel Networks without going into Major Population Centers in gaza. So i think the israelis are entirely right these Tunnel Networks need to be dismantled. Theres a way of doing that while still reducing the bloodshed. The president also on defense about his secretary of state. As john kerrys fourth attempt at negotiating a ceasefire has utterl
Worse. The attack in which he disappeared happened as hamas emerged from one of its infamous tunnels of terror. Tonight, israels military releasing this new video showing troops inside gaza discovering yet another tunnel, one of dozens used by hamas to stage crossborder attacks. Hours ago president obama stepped up to the microphones in the White House Briefing room. His intent was to make remarks on the economy. He was asked afterward by reporters to address the latest outbreak of hostilities. The president condemned hamas for breaking the ceasefire and defended israels right to dismantle these Tunnel Networks. The can dismantle these Tunnel Networks without going into Major Population Centers in gaza. So i think the israelis are entirely right these Tunnel Networks need to be dismantled. Theres a way of doing that while still reducing the bloodshed. The president also on defense about his secretary of state. As john kerrys fourth attempt at negotiating a ceasefire has utterly collaps
Former army sergeant, Staff Sergeant, will receive the medal of honor for his actions in july of 2008. Sergeant ryan pitts launched grenade after grenade, fired a machine gun at insurgents while bleeding profusely. He defended his post while nine other soldiers were killed. And 27 were injured. Pitts will be the ninth living recipient to be awarded the meddme meddel al of honor for actions in iraq or afghanistan. As soon as we see him and the president of the United States step behind that podium, we will bring you that special ceremony, live. But lets turn to the downing of mh17 in Eastern Ukraine. Couple of major developments to share with you this hour. First lets talk about the black boxes. So the black box, these data flight data recorders from the passenger jet, you can see what appears to be one here, that orange piece of machinery being removed from the scene. We now know they will be handed over to malaysia any minute now. But after five days, in the hands of the rebels, the q