requested a colonel convicted of murder and added along this infamous arms dealer for wnba star brittney griner and paul whelan. we have a team of correspondents covering these breaking developments. frederik pleitgen is in moscow for us. let s start with natasha bertrand, who is breaking this exclusive. what have you learned. reporter: what we ve learned is that in response to the russian proposal to trade that arms dealer, viktor bout for the two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and brittney griner, the russians put forward their own request and they said we don t want just viktor bout, we want this guy name vadim krz krosokov, convicted in december of 2021 for murdering in broad daylight a chech an fighter and the germans sentenced him to life in prison. the russians in response to this proposal submitted this kind of back channel request to the americans. it was done through an fsb back channel, the fsb of course is the main security service for the russians.
will not be opening in the fall. so where will the kids go? school s going to reopen, classes will resume in a few weeks. reporter: you know what, the school district is trying to do is to place those students at other schools within the district. the superintendent issuing a video message showing some of the new fencing that s going to go up around all the schools, and also some of the portable buildings that will be used as classrooms. alisyn and victor, there s a lot of hesitation from the parents in uvalde. they re actually pushing for virtual schooling instead of brick and mortar schooling. the school has delayed the start of the school year from august 15th to september 6th. we can certainly understand the parents anxiety about going back into a building. rosa flores, thank you very much for all of the developments. meanwhile, conservative supreme court justice samuel alito is speaking out for the first time since the court overturned roe