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Iron Dome Manufacturers Hacked; UN Calls For Four Hour Humanitarian Ceasefire In Gaza; Leading Ebola Doctor Dies From Disease; Samsung Z Delayed; Water Main Floods Streets Of Los Angeles

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

Now Palestinians claim Israel shelled a UN-run school in a Gaza refugee camp. Israel says it was returning fire at militants in the area.

Another doctor has died of Ebola amid the worst outbreak in the history of this deadly disease.

And their partnership has been a huge success, but could Samsung and Google be heading for a split?

Now we are just learning that Israel has announced what it's calling a four hour humanitarian window in Gaza, but it says that it will respond to

any attempt to harm Israeli citizens or soldiers during that time.

Now the military is also investigating claims that it shelled a UN-run school in Gaza's largest refugee camp. Now the Palestinian health ministry

says 20 people were killed when the facility, now serving as a shelter, came under fire early on Wednesday.

Now Israel said it is conducting a full review, but says an initial assessment shows militants fired at Israeli soldiers from the area of the

school and that the soldiers then returned fire.

Now Israel has said the three week old offensive is aimed at stopping rocket fire from Gaza and destroying underground tunnels that have been

used to smuggle weapons and to carry out attacks.

Now yesterday militants released a video said to show their fighters using a tunnel to reach an Israeli military tower and kill Israeli

soldiers.

Martin Savidge has more from Jerusalem.

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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There is no way that CNN can authenticate the Hamas video, but it does match up with information that we

do know. For instance, Hamas claims that this video shows an attack on Israeli soldiers by militants using a tunnel on Monday. The Israeli

military confirms that there was an attack on Israeli soldiers on Monday by militants using a tunnel. Israel says five of its soldiers were killed in

the attack, Hamas says it actually killed 10.

The issue of tunnels has become more of a justification for the ongoing military operation by Israel in Gaza than even the threat of

rockets, because the rocket threat has pretty much been knocked down as a result of the success of Iron Dome.

But the idea of tunnels, in other words the concept that a terrorist could pop up in an Israeli home, that really scares people here, whether

it's real or not.

So, many Israelis are very heavily backing the ongoing conflict. It's over 80 percent of Israelis still support what is happening inside of Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israel has released video of its own showing leaflets being dropped on Gaza. It says that it is doing all it can to try to limit the

number of civilian casualties. The leaflets to warn people to either stay indoors or to evacuate a neighborhood. Israel says it also uses robocalls,

text messaging, even something called a roof knock, a nonlethal explosive device that warns a person in the house the next really will be real.

Israel is well aware of the amount of criticism being launched against this country, because of the high number of civilians that have been killed

in the ongoing conflict, but Israel is also sending a clear message to its enemies, and that is if those enemies think that they can attack Israel and

hide behind a civilian population to do it, Israel is essentially saying they better think again.

Martin Savidge, CNN, Jerusalem.

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LU STOUT: Now this conflict is taking a very heavy toll in Gaza. Our John Vause is there, and he filed this report earlier on the desperate

situation that's growing worse every day.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Three weeks on and Gaza has taken a pounding. Crossing the border from Israel and the destruction is

everywhere. The buildings, still standing, seem deserted.

Well, the area around here seems to be completely abandoned. The only vehicles on the road, it seems, are ambulances that have been prepositioned

in case there is an Israeli air strike nearby and they need to get to the windows, but right now amid all of this destruction there just doesn't seem

to be any signs of life.

So dangerous here, firefighters can't get close enough to put out a blaze at Gaza's only power station; it was hit by a shell from an Israeli

tank, tank fire, which has shown no sign of letting up.

Palestinians say it could take a year to repair the power plant, but without electricity, many water pumps in Gaza City are no longer working,

sewage systems, too, have been damaged. Raw affluent is flowing into the sea.

Despite the Israeli offensive, Sadaa Jarul (ph) still opens his small shop every day. But now he sits there in the dark.

"This is not fair. We have children. Hospitals need power," he tells me. "The Israelis are not human."

Everywhere it seems there are long lines, especially for bread and tempers are beginning to fray, after waiting here for hours someone tried

to cut in line.

This man told me we want the situation to end because of our families and children.

Along with Hamas rockets and tunnels, Israel is also targeting Hamas leaders.

This is all that's left of the home of Ismail Haniyeh. He's the most senior Hamas political leader in Gaza. It was once a four story building,

now it's just been reduced to rubble. No one was home at the time of the air strike, but the message from Israel is clear.

And just across the road from the Gaza home of the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas a mosque was hit by Israeli fire.

Three weeks on, as the death toll continues to climb, many here face life without electricity or running water. The Israeli prime minister has

warned the military campaign might still be far from over.

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LU STOUT: Let's go live to Gaza City now where John Vause is standing by. And John, first, Israel has announced this four hour humanitarian

ceasefire. How is that being considered there in Gaza?

VAUSE: Well right now, Kristie, it seems to be relatively quiet. We've had constant bombardment by Israel here by air, by sea and by ground.

It's been a punishing 24 hours. But right now, as you say, relatively quiet. But within the last minute or so we understand from our crews down

on the ground in the Jabaliya refugee camp area, one Hamas rocket has been fired from there into Israel and while we haven't heard officially from

Hamas whether or not they will honor this four hour humanitarian window as long with the Israelis and hold fire as well, it seems that either that was

one last rocket in this four hour window or they will not abide by this ceasefire in any way at all.

So the situation right now, it does seem to be a lot more calm certainly compared to how it has been for most of today -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and before this four hour ceasefire window was announced, we had learned earlier in the day that another UN school shelled

in Gaza. Tell us what happened, John?

VAUSE: OK, this happened around 4:30 in the morning local time. And the UN is fairly adamant about the details surrounding what happened at

this school, which it was running as a shelter for people who have left their homes because of Israel's military operation. They say for about an

hour there had been a lot of activity, a lot of shelling around the school and then the school was in fact hit by five Israeli artillery shells. 19

people were killed, 126 or so were in fact wounded. They've suggested they have evidence to prove, in fact, that the Israelis were involved.

We have heard, though, from the IDF, the Israel Defense Forces, they have launched an investigation into this. The preliminary results -- keep

in mind this only happened within hour ago -- they say initial investigation shows that around the vicinity of the school militants had

been firing mortars onto Israeli soldiers who are in that area and those Israeli soldiers in fact returned fire.

They say there will be a full inquiry. No word yet on when that will be completed, but -- and just in terms of the ceasefire I can still hear

some explosions in the distance here, Kristie. So it remains to be seen whether or not this humanitarian window will hold, because if Hamas

continues to fire the Israelis have made it very clear they, too, will pick up their operation here.

LU STOUT: All right, thank you for highlighting that. You just said that Hamas continues to fire, despite the fact that Israeli IDF have

announced that four hour humanitarian ceasefire.

John Vause reporting on the scene for us live in Gaza City, thank you, John, take care.

Now you're watching News Stream. And still to come, more than 800 cases in Africa and counting, how health officials are dealing with the

deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history.

And nearly two weeks after the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17, investigators still cannot reach the crash site there in Ukraine. Our

cameras take you up close to the dangerous fighting that is blocking their way.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

You're watching News Stream. And you're looking at a visual version of all the stories we've got in the show today. Now we started with the

latest in the conflict between Israel and Gaza. And a little bit later Nick Paton Walsh will show us the fighting that's preventing investigators

from reaching the crash site in Ukraine of MH17. But first a doctor who was on the front line in the fight against Ebola has died from the disease.

Now Dr. Sheikh Umar Khan, he fell ill early last week while treating patients in Sierra Leone and he passed away on Tuesday. His death comes

amid the worst Ebola outbreak on record.

Now West Africa is scrambling to contain this deadly virus. In fact, Liberia has closed its borders aside from a few highly monitored

checkpoints. And Eric Air (ph), it's a major Nigerian carrier, has now suspended flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Now the World Health Organization says 672 people have died and more than 1,200 cases have been reported in the outbreak which began back in

March. Most cases are in Guinea where the Ebola death toll stands at 319. In Sierra Leone, 224 people are dead from the disease and in Liberia, the

virus has claimed 129 lives.

Typically, the Ebola death rate is 90 percent, but because it's often being caught early, it's down to about 60 percent in this outbreak.

Now our chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been monitoring the outbreak. He joins us once again from CNN Center. Sanjay,

thank you for joining us here on News Stream.

And first just a reset. Please remind us and our international viewers what is Ebola and how is it transmitted?

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDCIAL CORRESPONDENT: Ebola is a virus. It's been identified really since 1976. It used to make a jump from animals to

humans and it's a very deadly virus, as you pointed out. In previous outbreaks it's killed up to 90 percent of the people that are infected.

It's not a particularly contagious virus. It's not something that spreads through the air, but it is highly infectious, meaning just a small

amount of someone's body fluid who is infected, if it gets on you, even on your skin, it could infect you as well.

So that's the real concern and that's why health care workers like the doctor, Dr. Khan you just mentioned, that's why they're so at risk.

They're taking care of these patients, if they get a little bit of body fluid on them that can be the problem.

LU STOUT: Yeah, Dr. Sheikh Umar Khan who is a doctor who played a key role in the fight against Ebola, he has died from this deadly virus. So,

Sanjay, what safeguards should medical workers use to avoid infection here?

GUPTA: You know, it's very simple in some ways, but hard to implement. And it's basically to cover up every square inch of your skin.

I was in some of these Ebola camps in Guinea earlier this year, a couple of months ago and you can get an idea of the suiting up process. It's

challenging. It takes time. It's super hot outside. So it's difficult to do the work.

But you've got to cover up all your skin. When you go inside the camp and you're sprayed with a bleach like substance. When you come out, you're

sprayed again. So there are safeguards that they try and put in place. And, you know, for the most part they do work, but as evidenced here and in

some other cases there can be some lapses and that can lead to these infections.

LU STOUT: And we're looking at the file video of when you were covering the outbreak first in Guinea, this was back in April. I mean,

since then this outbreak has spread to a number of countries, to Liberia, to Sierra Leone as well. Why do you think that this outbreak of Ebola has

become so difficult to manage?

GUPTA: I think there's a couple of things at play here. One is that, you know, we just move around a lot more than we used to in countries in

West Africa, you know. The people are getting into big cities, cities where there's a national airports, typically in the past the virus was

really relegated primarily to very remote sort of village and almost jungle like areas. So this is a different sort of -- it's moving around more

readily.

But also I think there's a significant distrust of the medical establishment. You know, they don't -- there's no anti-viral, there's no

vaccine, so when the doctors show up, Kristie, it's usually because they represent death. And as a result there's distrust.

And also the transmission between families. I've seen this where, you know, funerals take place. There's a laying on of hands. So someone who

is infected with Ebola virus could be transmitting the virus to other family members, to other community members, and that's why you have these

tragic stories of entire families, even entire communities getting infected and dying.

So it's misinformation, mistrust, and I think, you know, just the fact that people are moving around.

LU STOUT: Yeah, dealing with the distrust, major issue. I'll be bringing that up with the spokesperson of the WHO live in Guinea later on

in the program.

Now you were just talking about the spread of the disease, Sanjay. We're all moving around. We all know how interconnected the world is.

Ebola has crossed borders there in Africa. Will it cross borders into the United States or in Hong Kong?

SANJAY: You know, I think people have sort of soft-pedaled that answer, but let me answer it directly. I think the answer is yes. I think

it will happen at some point.

Keep in mind that the time from when someone is exposed to the time that they may get sick can be as long as 21 days. That's the incubation

period. You can get on a plane, you wouldn't be sick. You could fly all over the world in 21 days certainly. So I think that's going to happen.

I think what is also important to reinforce is that doesn't mean that it's going to start spreading when it gets into places like Hong Kong or

the United States. If the patient is isolated, if it's contained, it's not that contagious, it's not going spread around like wildfire. So it has to

be identified and then, you know, the patient has to be treated.

So I don't think we'll have lots of mini-outbreaks as a result.

LU STOUT: Well, I appreciate your directness and your honesty there. Ebola will and can cross borders, but it will not necessarily spread like

wildfire, as you put it.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, thank you so much indeed. Take care.

GUPTA: You got it, Kristie, thank you.

LU STOUT: Now an understanding of Ebola has definitely grown since the virus was first discovered some four decades ago. But as Isa Soares

found out, there is still plenty of unanswered questions.

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DAVID HEYMANN, LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE & TOPICAL MEDICINE: The villages around Yambuku--

ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It was here in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then Zaire, and in southern Sudan that the

Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976.

HEYMANN: WE used this register early on to look through it in the periods when the outbreak was occurring to see if we could find any

patients with a diagnosis that might be compatible with a diagnosis of Ebola.

SOARES: Professor David Heymann was part of the team that investigated this first outbreak. And he says it all began with a

schoolmaster who may have gotten infected after butchering an animal that he bought from a local market.

HEYMANN: He was treated in the outpatient department with nosebleed and dysentery with an injection. And in that outpatient department there

were only four needles and syringes. And those four needles and syringes were not sterilized between use. And in addition they were taken into the

maternity.

SOARES: So the first outbreak occurred in the hospital where he says poor hygiene was commonplace. Within three months, the hospital closed

down, 280 people had died, including many of its health workers.

HEYMANN: Health workers then began to get infected, because they didn't know what the disease was. They became infected and they were the

source of the virus to their family members and then out into the community.

So this was an outbreak that shouldn't have occurred and wouldn't have occurred if hospital practices had been the way they should have been.

SOARES: Since then, there have been some 10 outbreaks of Ebola, 3,140 reported cases and more than 2,000 deaths. Throughout, the symptoms have

remained the same -- silent, but when it hits it's swift and usually deadly.

Four decades on since that first virus was discovered of Ebola, why no cure?

HEYMANN: There are no drugs that are known to be effective against Ebola. But there's much research going on. So we understand a lot about

the disease. We understand how it can be stopped. The mystery still remains as to where exactly it comes from in nature and how it gets from

nature into humans.

SOARES: It's critical then among other things to maintain a clean and disinfected environment. Quarantines and vigilance, experts say they're

key to containing a killer virus.

Isa Soares, CNN, London.

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LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And still to come, for the fourth day in a row fierce battles in Ukraine are keeping Dutch and

Australian investigators away from the Malaysia Airlines crash site.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you are back watching News Stream.

Now as fighting in Ukraine continues, Russia appears to be shrugging off new sanctions imposed by the U.S. and Europe. Now Reuters reports that

Russia's envoy to the EU is saying that the sanctions will, quote, "lead nowhere and fail to help solve the crisis."

Now the sanctions announced on Tuesday reflect western impatience with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the wake of the downing of Malaysian

Airlines flight 17 in Ukraine.

Now the sanctions will hit the arms, energy and finance sectors of the Russian economy.

Now international investigators and observers are still trying to reach the crash site. They had to abandon efforts again on Wednesday

because of the ongoing fighting.

Now wreckage is strewn across fields close to an area where violence is raging between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels. And this

dangerous situation has made it impossible for Dutch and Australian experts to safely travel there.

Now the fighting in eastern Ukraine is not only continuing, it appears to be escalating.

Now U.S. officials told CNN that Ukraine's government is now using short-range ballistic missiles against the rebels.

Nick Paton Walsh reports on the violence that is thwarting the investigation into the Malaysia Airlines crash.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: For inspectors trying to reach the crash site of MH17, this town Shakhtersk is the major

headache. Separatists hold it, but barely. We saw them exhausted, edgy, unsure how close the Ukrainian army was encircling them.

This man, a looter, they say, seen jumping through fences. He said he ran from shooting, led away perhaps to dig their trenches.

For four days Olig (ph) and his cat Simone (ph) have endured the blasts.

"At 5:00 in the morning," he says, "I heard a jet approaching. I don't know what the separatists used to shoot, but it was heavy caliber.

When you hear that, you just run to he basement."

She shouts, "and now they bomb the peaceful people. Why? To make us run away?"

This apartment bloc hit by shelling; beneath it, more militants ragtag unwilling to be filmed. One told me he was fighting for his town and then

quickly the quiet broke.

We're now hearing what sounds like an exchange of artillery beginning between two sides. It's time to move back away from here.

We left, along with many other locals, some on foot, all now fleeing down a road the inspectors want to travel up.

This what awaited them when they tried to reconnoiter the site unsuccessfully later that day.

Another complication when in the city center of Donetsk the war suddenly widened. Three shells hitting this apartment bloc at noon,

killing at least one. Locals came to stare at signs their city was now in the firing line.

This is exactly what this city of nearly a million people feared the most, that the violence swirling around it but not actually touching it has

now come straight to people's homes.

We don't know who fired, but militants had a base nearby, one saying that the army may have targeted that.

"This isn't really a military unit, though," he says. "We're the security service with only pistols. We try to evacuate people, but we

don't know when they will push the button next."

Even the eerie dead of night brings no solace, Donetsk's people hoping this night will pass.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Donetsk.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Coming up on News Stream, we have more on the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa. We'll be speaking to a health official at the

epicenter of the crisis.

Also a new report raises the red flag on a hacking instant that targeted the makers of Israel's Iron Dome. Now cyber experts say they have

tracked down the culprit and it's not Hamas.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Now Israel's military has authorized a four hour humanitarian window in Gaza, but says it will respond to any attacks on Israeli citizens or

soldiers. Now earlier, it announced a full review to claims that it shelled a UN-run school in northern Gaza on Wednesday. Now the Palestinian

health ministry says 20 people were killed in that attack. Israel says its soldiers responded to militant fire in the area.

Now the Dutch mission tasked with investigating the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 has abandoned efforts to travel to the crash

site for a fourth day. Now fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro- Russian rebels is blocking the route to the area where the plane was shot down nearly two weeks ago.

A leading doctor has died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Sheikh Umar Khan fell ill early last week while treating Ebola patients in

Sierra Leone. He died on Tuesday and according to the World Health Organization, at least 672 people have died in the current outbreak, the

worst one in history.

Now Tarik Jasarevic from the World Health Organization joins me now on the phone from Guinea, it's where the latest outbreak began back in March.

And thank you for joining us here on CNN International. What is your latest understanding about the number of people infected with Ebola across

West Africa?

TARIK JASAREVIC, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: Well, thank you very much, Kristie, for having me on your program.

As you have mentioned, the latest figures that have been reported to the World Health Organization speak about more than 670 people who have

died, more than 1,200 cases.

We are seeing cases being reported across countries in (inaudible) the tendency is to have a little decrease in numbers, but we still have new

cases, new transmission going on and we are working around the clock with other partners to support national health authorities in those three

countries to put in place all those measures that we know are needed to try to control this outbreak.

LU STOUT: The WHO is reporting more than 670 people have died from the latest Ebola outbreak believed to be the deadliest in history. Do you

believe that this outbreak has peaked? Or do you fear that the number of cases will continue to rise?

JASAREVIC: Well, Kristie, we really try to focus now on having enough of (inaudible) experts on the ground, to have enough treatment centers. To

control Ebola outbreak we need basically to (inaudible), treat each person in a (inaudible) conditions and try to (inaudible) all those people who

have been in close contact with infected people so we make sure they do not develop symptoms and they do not become a danger for the community.

What we are really trying to say to the people here is that sooner people get the treatment center, better chances they have for survival.

And they don't put at risk the life of their families.

LU STOUT: OK, so I can hear that you're focusing on the treatment, you're focusing on preventing the infection here.

I also wanted to ask you about what you and your colleagues are doing to protect yourselves from infection as we know a key doctors leading the

fight against this outbreak has unfortunately passed away. What are you doing to protect yourselves?

JASAVERIC: Well, this is a really good point, because from the beginning of the outbreak there was more than 100 health workers who have

been infected and half of them died. This really shows that health workers are at the front line of this fight and they put their lives and health at

risk.

What we really need to do is have enough equipment, protective equipment for the health workers. We need to train health workers in these

three countries, because for them this is the first time they are dealing with Ebola outbreak. And we need to have sufficient number of health

workers so they do reasonable shifts so they can not only care about patients, but they can also take care of their own safety.

So we are really trying to (inaudible) as possible to do all this job and to help health workers face -- and stay healthy.

LU STOUT: All right, Dr. Tarik Jasaveric, or rather the spokesperson of the World Health Organization making sense -- the urgency in your voice.

I wish you and your colleagues the very best. Unfortunately I'm going to have to wrap it up there because of the quality of this communication line

between both of us. But to you and WHO there in Guinea, best of luck and do take care.

Now to our top story this hour, both Israelis and Palestinians, they are paying a very heavy price in the ongoing conflict in Gaza. In fact,

the IDF it says 53 Israeli soldiers have been killed, 370 injured since the start of the military operation.

The death toll on the Palestinian side is much higher. Now authorities say that more than 1,200 have been killed, 7,000 wounded.

And Sara Sidner describes all the action that she saw earlier today from the border.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SARA SIDNER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: From our vantage point here on the Israeli-Gaza border we are seeing lots of action and hearing

lots of action -- artillery fire from Israel into Gaza. We can hear the sounds of that. We can also hear those deep baritone booms of Israel

trying to take out the tunnels.

We are seeing the result of some of that with the plumes of smoke going up in Gaza. We are overlooking the Jebaliya (ph) neighborhood of

Gaza, a lot of action.

We know from Israel's military that Gaza has been firing into Israel, more than a dozen rockets fired towards Israel. Although the Israeli

military saying that many of those have actually landed in Gaza, not made it over the border.

There has been plenty of action and there has been plenty of support from Israeli Jews for Netanyahu's push in Gaza. A lot of support, and I'm

talking about 87 percent of the people polled said that they support his effort, 86.5 to 87 in two different polls Israeli Jews saying Netanyahu

should go all the way trying to root out Hamas in Gaza.

Sara Sidner, CNN, on the Israeli-Gaza border.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now as you've heard Israel fights rocket attacks with its air defense system called the Iron Dome. It is really the centerpiece of

the country's defense strategy. But alarming new research has found that some of its makers were in fact hacked, apparently around two to three

years ago.

Now CNN Money's Laurie Segall spoke to the man who discovered the breaches and finds out exactly what was stolen.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A hack illustrated by security researcher Joe Drissel.

JOSEPH DRISSEL, CEO, CYBER ENGINEERING SERVICES, INC.: I'll put the malware up on the hot point and that hot point there could potentially

deliver a piece of e-mail that is infected down to the victim company.

SEGALL: At the heart of the breach, one of Israel's main defense mechanisms, the Iron Dome.

DRISSEL: It's a very elegant attack, and it's - it's almost like the flu for the Internet. There's no good way to stop it.

SEGALL: According to Drissel, a group of Chinese hackers from a group called the Comment Crew (ph) gained access to sensitive data from three

Israeli defense contractors from 2011 to 2012. Here's what they got.

DRISSEL: There's details about the aero missile system, which is the missile that is shot out of the launcher itself. And what we're talking

about are the actual schematics, the engineering, the auto cad diagrams of how you would build and reconstruct this particular missile system.

SEGALL (on camera): You've got these defense contractors that are holding all this sensitive data. Something as simple as a phishing attack

could breach it?

DRISSEL: You may think that it's easy to stop somebody from clicking on an e-mail attachment or a link, but human nature drives us to do that.

SEGALL (voice-over): A phishing attack that could crack the dome, or recreate it.

DRISSEL: If you wanted to identify weaknesses and particular technologies, you would want to know the underpinnings of it. This is a

great way to look for a way to maneuver around the Iron Dome. You could also, if you wanted to, recreate it.

SEGALL: Israel's Aerospace Space Industries and Rafael Advance Defense Systems deny sensitive info was stolen. IAI say it "cyber security systems

operate in accordance with the most rigorous requirements and also, in this case, they were proven to be effective."

Drissel says he came forward with the report to raise awareness. DRISSEL: We actually reached out on several occasions to not only the

victims in this situation, but we also provided the information to the authorities here in the United States.

SEGALL (on camera): Do you feel confident the Iron Dome is safe now and can't be hacked?

DRISSEL: At the end of the day, I don't believe at any point that any company is safe. It's important moving forward that we realize that these

are serious bits of information that we cannot allow to be released or gotten into the hands of the bad guys.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Wow, no company is safe from hack attacks. Laurie Segall reporting there.

Now, just ahead on the program, you're watching News Stream, a snag for Samsung as the smartphone maker struggles to wean itself from its

Android addiction.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now Twitter is flying high -- pre-market shares are soaring some 25 percent today. And that, despite bleeding more than $140 million in the

last quarter. Now the social media platform boasted an increase in overall revenue, including strong growth in advertising, but one of the main things

that got investors really excited was Twitter's widening user base. There are now more than 270 million active users around the world, up by 24

percent.

Now heavy use of Twitter during the World Cup significantly help drive that growth, but as you can see that figure it's still dwarfed by Facebook

and its vast, vast reach.

Now the growth of Twitter mobile users is also very noteworthy, which now exceeds some 200 million. But here, too, Twitter lags far behind

Facebook.

Now Samsung has delayed the release of its new smartphone, the Samsung Z. This will be Samsung's first phone running the Taizen operating system

instead of Google's Android OS.

Now bear in mind Samsung is the world's largest manufacturer of Android powered phones. As you can see, some estimates put Samsung's share

of the Android market at a staggering 65 percent.

But Samsung is now trying to wean itself off the little green robot and to gain more control over the interface and to differentiate itself

from other players, but will Google blink?

Now for more, let's bring in our regular contributor Nicholas Thompson in New York of the New Yorker.com of course.

Now Nick, what is the source of the tension, of the conflict between the two, Samsung and Google?

NICHOLAS THOMPASON, NEW YORKER.COM: Well, there's long running tension between the two. So Google makes an Android Operating System,

which is licenses to free for everybody. So it needs to have -- it has the operating system be sort of optimized and work across all kinds of phones

made by all kinds of manufacturers. Samsung is of course the biggest player.

Samsung would like its phones to be different. It would like its phones to be better. It would like its phones to be customized so it would

like to sort of twist Android this way, add this layer on top of it, maybe change this. Google wants everybody to use Android the same. So there's

this constant tugging and tugging.

Samsung would love to have its own operating system. Google would love to have a more diverse group of people using Android. But they're

kind of stuck with each other.

LU STOUT: It looks like the reality for both companies individually. First up, Samsung -- because Samsung, let's face it, has not been very

successful with its Taizen operating system so far. So how reliant is Samsung at the end of the day on Google despite its attempt to move away

from it?

THOMPSON: You know, I like to think of these two companies as kind of like a married couple that it's in it for the long run, but they're both

struggling with infidelity and they have problems.

You know, they are reliant. They're going to stay together. Samsung -- the majority of Samsung phones, the vast majority of Samsung phones will

be using Android, you know, far off into the future.

We've basically -- we are now locked into an ecosystem where there are going to be essentially two operating systems for phone. There's going to

be Apple's operating system and there's going to be android. App developers will make apps for those two and not for anything else. It's

going to be almost impossible for another player to really bust in. Windows has some chance, but it's very, very hard.

So Samsung, which had this, you know, slightly hair brained idea that they would make phones running Taizen and somehow port all the Android apps

over to them, they're now giving up on that, which was -- or not giving up on it, they're now delaying it, but that was entirely predictable.

It's going to be really hard to build a new operating system and then get everyone's apps to work on it. It's just impossible.

So Samsung is stuck with Android, Android is stuck with Samsung.

LU STOUT: Yeah, Samsung is really locked into Android for now. But Google, is it really stuck with Samsung? I mean, just reliant is Google on

Samsung to have hardware to run on?

THOMPSON: Well, I mean this is another -- it's another tricky thing for Google, right.

I think you said it was 65 percent of Android phones are made by Samsung. It's a huge percentage. And what Google does is -- Google also

makes its own hardware. Google bought Motorola, though it spun it off. So Google is constantly -- it's giving Android to other hardware

manufacturers, which is nice of Google, but then it's also building its own hardware and competing with those hardware manufacturers.

Every year it sort of selects one hardware manufacturer to work with particularly closely on a line of phones. So that's great for whoever it

picks, but not so great for everybody else.

Google is in this really complicated political position where it's got to be a partner and a competitor with all of these companies at the same

time. And I'm actually amazed at how well Google has pulled it off. I mean, this was clear from the time Google decided to start making its own

hardware a few years ago that there would be a lot of tension, but it's somehow done pretty well with it. And it's kept Samsung relatively happy.

What we've actually seen -- so the tensions between Google and Samsung reached an apex maybe six months ago. And they've been dissipating since.

There have been a lot more signs of friendship -- patent agreements, nice shoutouts between the companies, the delay of Taizen. So there's always

going to be tension. There's structural tension, but they're getting along a little better now than they did this winter.

LU STOUT: All right, thank you very much indeed. You've definitely established -- I mean, you look at Samsung and Google it is a complicated

co-dependent relationship that's had its ups and downs over the years. Nick Thompson from New York. Thank you.

Now, we've got a new milestone for e-Sports, a video game tournament was watched by over 20 million people. They were watching the

international force (ph), a tournament held this month for the game Dota 2. It's an online game for PCs that pits two teams of five against each other

in a battle arena.

Now a team from China claimed the $5 million prize, that's U.S., the biggest ever for a gaming competition.

Now 20 million viewers may not be a lot considering that billions tune for the World Cup, but it is a significant step forward for e-Sports. Now

the tournament was even shown on ESPN in the United States.

Still to come right here on News Stream, it is a lot of water that drought stricken California cannot afford to waste. This broken water main

shut down roads and flooded a university campus. We've got more on the story after the break.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now this massive water main break, it sent millions of gallons of precious water gushing onto the famed Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and

other city streets.

As you can see in this video here, roads in L.A. turned into rivers. Parts of the UCLA campus flooded.

At least three motorists had to be rescued from underground parking garages and thankfully no one was hurt.

And it couldn't have come at a worse time, California just recently passed water restrictions because of state-wide drought conditions.

In fact, let's get more now on the crippling drought there in the U.S. state of California. Samantha Moore joins us with that -- Samantha.

SAMANTHA MOORE, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, thank you.

You know, Governor Jerry Brown, the governor of California, has issued a new slogan and it's Brown is the new Green. They want everyone to let

their lawns go and to quit watering, because they now have these mandatory restrictions. They had voluntary ones. That didn't work. They ended up

using more water instead of less. And we do have 100 percent of the state in severe drought or worse, 36 percent in exceptional. So it doesn't get

much more dire than this.

And of course as we head into this week we have a big ridge of high pressure over the west, so a very hot, dry pattern for the entire

southwest, but specifically here in the state of California. They did have some thunderstorms the last couple of days, nothing too eradicate the

drought that they've had and now that pattern becoming a bit drier for them than it was, because we did have those monsoon storms coming in, that will

not be the case today, unfortunately.

Let's take you into Europe where we've had incredible flooding rain across the region, especially here in Romania. We're going to take you

into southwestern and central Romania where the gorge -- the city of Gorge (ph) we have had some incredible flooding. Take a look at these pictures,

this torrential flood water, the torrential rains causing the strong flood waters to sweep through town. The river to overflow its banks. And at

this point we do have folks being evacuated, water evacuations as they're trying to escape this dangerous situation here.

It has been the wettest summer in Romania in a number of years. And look at the damage here -- homes damaged, cars swept off the roadways and

people's lives left here in ruins from all the heavy rain that we've seen.

Now as we take you in and show you what the big weather pattern is here, you can see how wet it has been across the region. The July average

some 64 millimeters. We are far above that, around that 150 millimeter range. And more rain is on the way here as well. You can see this next

system is moving in their direction and we're going to see another round of heavy rain heading into the next 24 hours or so. So unfortunately there's

no real relief here in sight as this next system moves on in and the threat of severe is moving in their direction as well with the heavy rain, the

hail and the strong gusty winds.

Check out India, the monsoon now up and running. And look at all the rain they have had across the region, 175 millimeters in Bombay and

landslide troubles there as well. We do have many feared, up to 20, dead, feared to be dead here, and 150 people are trapped. This happened just a

few hours ago, Kristie, so unfortunately they have their hands full there in India with trying to find these missing people.

LU STOUT: My goodness, troubling weather conditions there and around the world. Samantha Moore, thank you.

Now before we go, just want to show you some rather extraordinary video, it comes from the U.S. state of Indiana. Now two trespassers with

now good choice here. I mean, staring almost death in the face, these two women they found themselves trapped on a set of elevated train tracks

between a 100 car coal train and a 25 meter drop.

Now you can see one woman stumble, the other appears to dive down between the rails as they pass out of view of the camera, which is taking

video from the front of the train. The train hits the breaks, but the engine is all the way across the bridge before it can stop.

So what happened to the two women? Well, they stayed down between the rails and they managed to -- believe it or not -- they managed to survive

with nothing more serious than a stubbed toe.

They are incredibly lucky, but also this is seriously dangerous and illegal. They are being prosecuted for trespassing.

That is News Stream, but the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next.

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