One hour is supposedly left in the ceasefire with hamas. Does that squash any remaining crumb of hope of extending this truce . And the varied lead, the daughter of an american tourist was actually trying to lose her suitcase because, police say, she had her moms body stuffed inside. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Well begin with the world lead. 129 more of what the u. S. Military calls advisers have arrived in iraq to assess options for rescuing tens of thousands of yazidis and other refugees who have been trapped for days on end on top of mount sinjar by isis jihadists below. Isis say they killed a large number of yazidi men when they stormed the city below and theyre holding 100 yazidi women and children captive in mosul. Military advisers may be how the white house refers to it, the personnel they ordered into iraq, though arc suredly these advisers are not armed with mere memo pads. I suppose you can call them advisers. You can call them camouflaged enthusiasts if you want, but what they really are are american troops. More of them in iraq right now. Theyre not in a state of combat role as the white house is quick to remind you, but now the real question is will president obama order u. S. Troops and those there and others to carry out a mission to rescue the yazidis and other refugees. 10 to 20,000 of them are stuck on a mountain according to kurdish officials and this is view of an aid drop from a helicopter. If the yazidis and other refugees come down from the mountain they would a you are suredly be walking into a genocide at the hands of isis. If the president green lights an american role in the rescue, what form will that take . Cnn reported that air evacuation is being considered and today the Deputy National security adviser admitted that the white house is considering, considering Ground Troops to help. Growth fund troops, not combat troops, the white house says, but if Ground Troops, combat troopses, american troops once there are then forced to engage isis fighters on the ground as seems quite possible, isnt that the definition of combat . Lets bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Barbara, what are the ryazidi, evacuations here . Whether you do it by land or by air, the question is how deeply president obama wants to get involved in iraq. Iraqi helicopters continue to drop aid and rescue at least some people. Amid the blistering heat, thousands more desperate every day. The u. S. Military now working on a plan to get them out. There may be as many as 20,000 yazidi iraqis still here. Initial options could be ready for the president to consider within 48 hours according to one defense official, but no one can yet say how soon a rescue operation could begin. The president s one limiting factor that hes communicated repeatedly in public and to the military is we dont want to be reintroducing u. S. Forces into a combat role on the ground. Reporter there are two basic military options, rescue by land or air. An escape over land would involve a long, dangerous drive to the Syrian Border or other areas in Northern Iraq. Security could be a nightmare. Many of the yazidis may not be Strong Enough to make the journey. A u. S. Official says the initial focus is on an air evacuation. It may be the quickest and the u. S. Has enough v22s and helicopters to do the job, though it could take weeks. But either option has crucial obstacles. The u. S. Will have to continue air strikes against nearby isis targets to keep them at bay. The u. S. Will also have to provide security all of the way from the mountaintop to any refugee camp location willing to take the yazidis and that, u. S. Officials say, will mean u. S. Troops will be on the the ground, but the military insists those troops will only be in a humanitarian role. The president s been very clear. There will not be boots on the ground in a combat role. Thats very, very clear direction, but what he also told us to do was to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis there in Northern Iraq and on and around mount sinjar. Now anything will require, of course, president obamas approval and the u. S. Has made it clear it wants other countries to join in, it wants the iraqis and the peshmerga fighters to join in on any rescue mission and if theyre going do this it seems the u. S. Presence will only grow. Jake . Barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you so much. Thousands of yazidis have been rescued and any safety theyll find is all relative. Where are they supposed to go . Isis is hunting them, running the yazidis out of their homes and out of their villages and our Senior Correspondent ivan watson is in iraq. Bring this down to us from a personal level. What are these individual yazidis facing . Reporter im hearing anecdotally of a litany of alleged atrocities carried out of isis militants. First when they swept into the town of sinjar which had a significant yazidi population. Its impossible to confirm these accusations, but the survivors i talked to one of them described seeing his neighbors head chopped off with a knife. Others describe isis gunmen opening fire on civilians as they were fleeing and many, many people have described the yazidis and allied arab tribesmen gathering up large numbers of civilians, taking them hostage and taking them away as far as the city of mosul to a prison there, a large number of captives missing. The subsequent steps of human suffering that have been imposed on these people are also horrifying. As people fled up to mount sinjar, there, one by one, families have told about seeing people die as a result of dehydration and lack of food and exposure to the elements and what is continuing to claim lives is the long march that they have to make those who choose to escape the mountain on foot to neighboring syria, walking ten to 15 hours. Thats truly heartbreaking because you hear about people who talk about how they had to leave their loved ones behind either because they died on the long march or because they couldnt walk any further and the rest of the family had to continue moving on so they would leave a loved one, perhaps in a spot of shade and then keep going toward the Syrian Border to safety. So were still trying to wrap our heads around the scale of suffering and death caused by the isis, ethnic and sectarian cleansing of parts of Northern Iraq, jack. Ivan watson, its so horrific. Thank you so much. Stay safe. Lets bring in ali kaderi, a contributor to Politico Magazine who served as assistant to five american ambassadors to iraq. He is part of the dragoman partners. Youve written this open letter to president obama about a lot of advice about his middle eastern policy, but getting more specific, what should president obama be doing right here right now about isis . First, were assuming that a National Unity government will be formed in baghdad under Prime Minister a bushing adi and that has yet to be determined and the the second thing that needs to happen is after abadi forms a cabinet, he needs a new way of doing business in iraq, and we as the United States government have to be very clear with the iraqis with not only new faces, but a new basis that the sunni insurgence will continue and that isis will get stronger and stronger. The root solution of iraqs problems and of isis creation is grounded in politics and its groubdzed in the failure of both malikis government in baghdad and assads Genocidal Campaign in syria. That is what has created isis and an entity that did not exist three years ago. Why is the arab league not other than the kurdish fighters and Iraqi Military . Its a great question and the answer is extremely sensitive. The issue is that for our regional arab allies and our turkish allies, if they were to send boots on the ground into iraq, what that would mean is that it is the start of a regional war, and if you start a regional war you never know where its going to end and so while the iranians, for example, have already sent in for years now some of their Senior Officers to wage a Covert Campaign against the United States military and iraqi forces. In fact, iran killed about as Many Americans as al qaeda did in iraq, if the arab countries send in forces now you could see a destabilization in the entire region. Ali, one of the things you write in your politico oped is that there needs to be a middle east czar to take on headon the threat of transnational jihad. Do you think the Obama Administration doesnt take the threat of islamists seriously enough . I know they dont take the threat of transnational seriously enough as demonstrated by president obamas assessment of isis only a few months ago calling them the jv team when in reality isis represents the most virulent form of transnational jihad the government has ever seen. These folks are not muslims. They are animals, frankly. They are a group that is so vicious and so blood thirsty and such a death cult that even core al qaeda leadership, bin ladens successors, namely have disavowed them. And so by referring to them as the jv team, by sitting back and watching them rise over three years despite the genocide in syria, by watching malikis sectarian policies where isis could again come into iraq and by doing nothing about it for months now, despite repeated warnings for the american intelligence community, whats happened now is the cancer has met aft sized and we have a major problem on our hands, a problem that threatens regional stability and thus threatens global stability and thats why im calling for a modernday geral Dwight Eisenhower as generalizen hower was the supreme allied commander in europe after hitler made a mess of europe, im calling for a modernday ike to prevent the middle east from descending into chaos and for frankly, potentially creating a third world war i not because of the countrys invasion of its neighbors and because transnational jihad has become a global problem thats an exist earn threat as we know it. Im telling you right now, jake, i obviously dont anymore being outside of govern am, but you dont need access to cia and nsa products to know that they are coming and that another 9 11 is imminent unless we act decisively and quickly and do it right now with our allies both in the region and around the world. A stark warning from ali khederi, thank you so much, sir. When we come back, code red, sirens heard in israel as israel claims a rocket, at least one is fired from gaza minutes before the end of the ceasefire. Will israel retaliate in well go live to the region next, plus, police again defending the officer who shot an unarmed 18yearold in missouri. They say he was injured in an altercation with the teen, but does that match up to what the witnesses saw . [ male announcer ] ours was the first modern airliner, revolutionary by every standard. And that became our passion. To always build something better, airplanes that fly cleaner and farther on less fuel. 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Israel claiming that militants in palestine or rather in the palestinian territory of gaza broke the ceasefire just two hours before it was set to expire. Two hours. The Israel Defense forces say one rocket landed in an area of hof ashkelon with no injuries and they tweeted out what looks like a readymade graphic, we cease, hamas fires. A text to cnn denies that the group itself launched any rockets toward israel. They accuse israel of firing on fishermen near the gaza border. We were expecting the delegation to hold a press conference a short time ago, but that has been delayed. The big question is this latest round of quiet over and if so, for how long. Frank plightkin is in gaza city and john voss is in jerusalem. Lets start with fred. Any air strikes, explosions and any retaliation from israel . Reporter hi, jake. Its certainly a fluid and tense situation in gaza right now. I can tell you that about an hour and a half to two hours from now as you described we were here at our location in central gaza when we did hear what sounded like an outgoing rocket and it was two hours later that the israeli Defense Forces said that yes, indeed a rocket landed on their territory. There have been conflicting reports as to how many rockets fired. Some were saying two to three. However, the Israel Defense force confirming one rocket had been fired to us at this point it seems there has been any reit will ator strike by the israelis yet. There were possible explosions in northern gaza. The Israel Defense forces saying they have no reports of that nor would they confirm that there are military operations going on. Nevertheless, the people here are bracing for what might come next. Only about two and a half hours ago, the streets down here in gaza city were absolutely bustling with life. There were people around. There were cars in the street and there were people Walking Around with their children. Right now the streets down there are dead. Of course, in part would have to do with the fact that the ceasefire expires in about 45 minutes anyway, however, it doesnt seem as though people here are very hopeful that the ceasefire might hold, that there might be some sort of extension of the truce. Certainly its looking quite bleak for them at this point in time as to what the next couple of hours will bring. Will there be additional rockets fired from gaza or could there be some sort of retaliatory action from the israelis . It seems at this point in time there is a fairly quiet atmosphere here, but as i said its very, very tense and you can feel people are brace for example what might come, jake. John in jerusalem. What are you hearing . Any more sirens . Whats going on there . Reporter all very quiet after this initial burst of sirens and warnings around the southern part of israel. Its important to note the idea that one rocket has been fired. A source in israel says there is no statement coming from the israeli side before the ceasefire is officially set to end in 40 minutes from now and were also waiting for that israeli response. Theyre keeping a close eye on gaza as to what happens next and when i asked was it one rocket is it a deal breaker . One rocket is probably something that we can live with and adding it doesnt make sense right now. The situation were in is if there is further rocket fire coming out of gaza then expect something from the israelis trading that theres no more rockets and the israelis will hold their fire, if you like and were now in the situation that, yes, the ceasefire has been violated it doesnt necessarily mean that it has collapsed, jake. What are the israelis saying, john, about the possibility of that egyptian proposal where the crossings would be opened and there be more fishing permitted, but other than that, no one else would get their demands and no demille tarization and no other lifting of the block cade . Reporter the israelis have been unusually silent on anything happening in cairo and they loosened up the border crossings a little bit, but there was an egyptian proposal accepting an extension of the current ceasefire and maybe in a couple of weeks everyone comes back and talked about the much more difficult issues. All of that now seems to be on hold depending on what happens over the next couple of hourses. One thing to note, though, you were here last week when the last ceasefire ended and at 8 01 local time the palestinians started firing rockets accusing israelis of violating the ceasefire because of the hard position which they maintained in cairo essentially saying they werent negotiating in good faith. Well have to wait another 40 minutes to find out. John vause in jerusalem and frank fligpleitgen. Hillary clinton was asked about president obama and what did she say theyll be doing . Theyll be very close. An american found dead, her body found in a suitcase and left in a taxi. Why police think her own teenage daughter might be involved. About you know hidden things. Ok, whys that . No hidden fees, from the bank where no branches equals great rates. Ugh. Heartburn. Did someone say burn . Try alka seltzer reliefchews. They work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. Mmm. Amazing. Yeah, i get that a lot. Alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. 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