reporter just minutes ago. team coverage, straight ahead. nine soldiers killed in kentucky. helicopters crashing into a residential area. the deadliest loss for our military in a single incident since 13 troops were killed in kabul in 2021. what we are learning about the moments before the crash and what witnesses say they saw and heard. in russia tonight, a u.s. journalist charged with espionage. the kremlin claiming he was caught red-handed. the wall street journal reporter originally from new jersey facing decades behind bars if convicted. pleading not guilty in court. the wall street journal saying he is innocent. the white house sing the charges are ridiculous. the chilling 911 call released from inside that nashville school. a teacher in the closet in the art room with students, calling for help. you can hear the children in the background, how the teachers protected their students. the threat tonight of dangerous tornadoes in the same region just hit. 70 million
report. it goes to show that the louisville police department has been practicing and abusing the black community in that city for many, many years. according to the justice department, they ve known for years that the police department was targeting african americans for for pretextual police stops, trying to figure out ways to get them to pull over, and then finding additional cars that they could look into. they renamed a crime unit called the viper unit, but continued doing the same things. the city itself looked into some of the practices of the police department targeting african americans, and nothing changed after doing that. here is attorney general merrick garland describing some of the findings. some officers have demonstrated disrespect for the people they are sworn to protect. some have videotaped themselves throwing drinks at pedestrians from their cars, assaulted people with disabilities, and called black people, monkeys, animal, and boy. this conduct is un
of everything nefarious, as willfully taking them are obstructing their efforts to restrict that of course is in stark contrast with the mar-a-lago documents, former president posting this on his social media site today. mike pence is an innocent man, did not do anything knowingly dishonest in his life, leave him alone. he certainly not saying the same about president biden, newer will james calmer, the new oversight chairman backing off of his investigation with the president. saying today, former vice president pence s transparency stands in contrast to white house staff who continue to withhold information from congress and the american people. this is the same comer in that last week said that investigating the president would the would not be a priority for his committee. the news today helped blur with the real distinctions are between former presidents case and apparently the other two. an opportunity to blame the system, but instead as a member of the house intell
we ll hear from both sides of the legal debate. he s the failed republican candidate accused of orchestrating the shootings at the homes of democrats, now investigators are looking into whether solomon pena s campaign was funded by fentanyl. also, this a massive loss for music. david crosby dying at 81. we ll speak live with one of his best friends. cnn this morning starts right now. to all of those stories in just a moment, but first we need to talk about ukraine s president, volodymyr zelenskyy, making a desperate plea for more weapons before it is too late. there are signs that russia is regrouping and preparing to launch a major offensive. and cnn has learned cia director bill burns personally flew to kyiv for a secret meeting with zelenskyy to brief him on vladimir putin s plans. this morning, the defense secretary, lloyd austin, is at ram stein air base in germany to huddle with western allies. president zelenskyy spoke virtually at the meeting. the war st
we don t know what is in the documents. but we know that they were classified at the level of sensitive compartmented information. this is among some of the closely guarded u.s. government secrets. that is the reason why this has now being reviewed by prosecutors at the justice department. by the u.s. attorney in chicago of the which handles these matters. they do damage assessment to see whether there in the six years that these documents were being held in a location that is not secure, whether there is any damage that has been done to national security. of course, the white house says that the white house is cooperating with this review that is being done by the national archives and the justice department. and they say this is obviously something that even the former president even the president was not aware of until these documents were found by his legal team as they were trying to shut down this think tank office that he had set up after he left office in 2017.