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being on. let s reset at the top of the hour now. i m anderson cooper. thank you for joining us. we re following two major breaking stories that the hour. the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. and i m 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 truth first, he say then acting. there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened. the u.n. security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russia, to their word. in order to facilitate that investigation. russia, pro-russian separatists and ukraine must adhere to an immediate cease-fire. evidence must not be ....
restricted zone at the moment. still so many questions to be answered. and there s going to be a lot of finger-pointing over the next several hours, days and even weeks as this investigation begins to intensify. let s take a kind of a look back now at all we know. at the top of the hour, thank you very much for joining us, it is 3:00 here on the east coast of the united states. we are following breaking news this hour. right now it is 10:00 p.m. in ukraine where earlier today the horrifying scene was captured on camera, the moment a passenger jet falls from the sky, exploding on impact. the tragedy without a doubt. but was it an accident? right now it appears very likely this plane may have been intentionally shot down over eastern ukraine. we don t know for sure. there s a lot we don t know. here s what we know right now. this was malaysian airlines flight a boeing 777 traveling from amsterdam to kuala lumpur in malaysian. on board, 295 people, 280 of them passengers. 15 ....
all. a gunman is holding more than 30 hostages at a high school. eight people have been shot, including at least four students. we can only make an appeal to the gunman. stop. there s been enough already. an all white jury acquitted four white police officers of assault in the videotaped beating of black motorist rodney king. i was scared. i was scared for my life. across the nation, people were paying attention to this. the officers struck him with batons between 53 and 56 times. it was one of the first cases where there was actual video of a case of alleged police brutality. for 13 months, the city of los angeles has been a pressure cooker, building up to the rodney king trial. we, the jury, in the above entitled action find the from the intersex intersection. and they said, don t go down there. don t go down there. and they said to dana, who s very blond, very white, don t go down there, and that s the worse thing you can say to a journalist is don t go ....
than 30 hostages at a high school. we can only make an appeal to the gunman, stop, there s been enough already. across the nation, people were paying attention to this. the officers struck him with batons between 56 and 66 times. for 13 months, los angeles has been a pressure cooker. we find the defendant while the nation s eyes are glued to los angeles. police have been called to a bizarre crime scene. fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney risso, if the president of exxon corporation is missing from his home. his wife said he left home early that morning, later that evening his car was left idling in the driveway of their home. they had followed their routine, they had breakfast together and she walked him to the door and said goodbye as she always did around 7: 30. miss his car never got to the end of the driveway, and there was no sign of him, the guy had just gone poof. friends say riso is just like the house they ....
carried political and potentially legal peril. the strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. they wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn t be repudiated later if the full details emerged. but within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. when they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the new york times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a campaign issue at the time. the claims were later shown to be misleading. further down in the washingt wa post story, quote, as special counsel robert mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broad ....