Violence continues across the middle east this morning as World Leaders call for an end to the deadly fighting. Early this morning israel bombed five mosques, a stadium, and home of a hamas military chief in the gauze wra strip. More than 100 people were killed in gaza on monday, and at least 25 Israeli Soldiers have dowed since the ground operation began. The latest air strikes came after the u. N. Chief ban ki moon and john kerry met in cairo to push for peace. Martin fletcher joins us live from tel aviv, israel. You are there on the ground. Are you seeing anything that indicates a hope for a ceasefire today . Not much, no, dara. There was talk about a humanitarian ceasefire, allowing the fighting for about five hours. Israel said no. Every indication is that israel wants to keep going until theyve achieved its objectives. The focus of the diplomatic activity now is here in jerusalem and in cairo. The u. N. Secretary general ban ki moon is in israel talking to israeli leaders. Secretary of state john kerry is in cairo talking to the egyptian president , and palestinian leaders are also being brought in to talk on behalf of hamas. Trying to work out an agreement that could be acceptable to both hamas and israel. That, of course, is after egypt did make the proposal about a week ago which hamas rejected and israel did accept. Now the fighting is continuing, and an Israeli Ground offensive is moving slowly but deeper into gaza, continuing its operating in that Northern Area where the fighting has been fiercest. The big question today is whether or not one israeli soldier has been kidnapped or taken by hamas. Hamas claims they have an israeli soldier. Israel says they do have one soldier who is missing. They say he is dead, though, presumed dead. Killed in the action when the six other Israeli Soldiers were killed. Now the question is does hamas have leverage over israel or not. Dara. Martin, thank you so much for following this story. Well be back with more updates. Martin fletcher in tel aviv. Nbc nightly news anchor Brian Williams interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu last night. They discussed the escalating violence in the middle east, and netanyahu explained that israel has to defend itself. What would you do . What would you do if American Cities where are you sitting now, brian . It would be rocketed. It would absorb hundreds of rockets. You know what you would say . You would say to your leader, a man has to do what a man hoz to do and a country has to do what a country has to do. We have to defend ours. We tray to do it with the minimal amount of force and targeting military targets as best we can. We have to defend ourselves. No country can live like this. Now to the latest of the downing of flight mh17. A train carrying the remains of the victims has just arrived in the ukrainian city outside the area where separatists and the Ukrainian Forces have been fighting. From there theyll be transported to the netherlands. Were also learning that this hour the Malaysian Air investigators have arrived at the crash site. Separatist leaders have also turned over the black boxes of the downed crash to malaysian officials. Leaders for the European Union will decide today whether to toughen sanctions against russia wra following the downing of the airliner. Kier simmons has the latest. Reporter train cars packed with bodies were taken away. No one knows when they would be returned to their families. 282 discovered so far, laid on the ground in the hot sun before finally being loaded into a refrigerated railcar. Inspected by a team of dutch Forensic Experts who must identify each individual. I have now seen the bodies. We are starting with the identity process. Thats very important to relatives. Reporter how long will it take . I dont know. You dont know how long . No, no. Reporter they must work around the prorussian militia accused of shooting down the plane, but a full four days since the crash wreckage still litters the country side. Peoples bags appear to have been opened, and what cleanup there is is basic. With just a car and a bit of rope they try to haul some refuge out of the wart. Reporter here bringing on fire trucks, and then finally the only train around is awe torn section of wing. International investigators. Reporter amid swernt outrage, the Prime Minister said rebels agreed they would give access. Stwloo that was nbcs kier simmons reporting. Now to the pacific northwest. The firefight as new wildfires explode. There are now 33 fires burning in oregon and washington. On the ground hot shot crews are struggling to gain control. In the air tankers are just trying to keep up. In Central Washington the images look apocalyptic. Wildfires four times the size of seattle, and that leaves people little time to get out. Cars were flying up here, stopping everywhere and saying that were that fire is coming here at 30 miles an hour, and you guys have just a few minutes to get out of here. Both fires have forced more than 1,200 out and burned down at least 100 homes and buildings. The former father who made headlines for allegedly beating his sons babysitter to a bloody pulp is talking. My immediate feeling was to kill him so he will never hurt anybody again. Reporter 18yearold raymond folander was in bed with the 11yearold. The childs father walked in and allegedly lost it. The mugshot of a bloodied and bruised folander went viral. The father says he was lucky. My son raymond was motionless on my floor. I went to my kitchen to grab a butcher knife. My son came to me and saved his attackers life. Reporter the daytona dad they claim he is exploiting the situation. He is asking people to donate 1 million to help rebuild his sons life. So far, however, more than 100 has been donated. Moments after receiving the nations highest award for combat valor, the newest medal of honor recipient turned the spotlight on who he believed the real heroes are. In 2008 a former Staff Sergeant ryan pitts was a paratrooper in afghanistan. He singlehandedly defended an observation post against upwears of three taliban fighters. President obama called it one of the fiercest battles. The real heroes are the nine men who made the ultimate sacrifice for the rest of us to return home. It is their name, not mine, that i want people to know. Reporter pitt thanked reporters before walking away. He is the ninth Living Service member to receive the medal of honor for his work in afghanistan. U. S. Climate Scientists Say june was the hottest month in recorded history. Meteorologist bill karins has much more on that. Good morning. Yeah, it goes back to 1880. Thats how long the records go back. Thats a good period of record there. It was also to sdrach your head about climate stuff. They also said the oceans were the warmest that theyve seen, but we also have the most ice in the pole that is weve seen since 1982. Figure that one out. As far as the fire situation, heres a map that shows you where the active large wildfires are. Theres 32 uncontained fires. Only one in california. Notice oregon and washington, and a lot of those were sparked by lightning storms. I guess sometimes you have to am get rain and thunderstorms to stop the fires. This is the weather pattern. The hot, dry weather has at least for a day or two going to go away. As far as the rain goes, were not expecting a lot of rain in the northwest, but you see the radar there. Some creeping up from the south there. Were getting into that thats a carlton complex fire that were trying to get that rain on. Theyre calling it the biggest in the Washington State history. Today kind of cloudy and cooler with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. Exactly what we needed to fight through and cools things off. 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Again, as we go through wednesday, well have a chance for more thunderstorms. The problem is any lightning could cause new fires too. Sometimes you just cant win. Sometimes its hard. You cant get that perfectly cloudy forecast with just solid rain. I mentioned as we head wards the weekend, things will warm up. We get tuesday and wednesday your chance for wet weather and rain in the northwest. This is portland, oregon. Portland goes up into the low 80s. Where the fires are occurring inland on the other side of the mountains, thats where its going to be in the 90s still, and it will be sunny and dry. We get about a twoday reprieve from summer temperatures. Something to look forward to for the weekend. It will warm up from here. Thats why its good and bad. Its fwood if you want your summer plans. Bad for firefighters. Thank you, bill. Now, were going to move on to entertainment news, and heres something for star wars fans to get excited about. Director j. J. 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