fox news top of the hour, three big stories topping the news. china s military carrying out massive blockade drills around taiwan today. china announced three days of drills on saturday after taiwan s president met in california with house speaker kevin mccarthy. protests expected in tennessee today where the state legislature is back in session for the first time since it voted to expel two democrats for their role in a chaotic gun control protest. a at the detention of erin gershkovitch. more on those stories throughout the hour. first. someone got shot. dana: the army sergeant convicted in the death of a black lives protestors in 2020 says it is self-defense but facing a possible sentence of life in prison. texas governor abbott is calling for the state to grant a pardon. that is developing now. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i know you had a good weekend. excellent. great easter weekend, thank you. i m bill hemmer
see, i said so. then at pursuant certain glands begin to work and our bodies begin to change. what s pursuant? well, puberty? puberty is a lot of things. mainly a time of change. for you have, it means your bodies are changing from boys to men. pete: if sex was ever taught in the classroom it was mostly clear cut. still dad still had to sit you down and give you the good old birds and bees talk. that was the point parents had control over their kids. book of proverbs train up a child in the way he should go. even when he is old, he will not depart from it. it s our job. but today that biblical truth has been turned upside down. because parents are being replaced by an agenda. i told all my students that my pronouns are they/them and that my honor risk is mixed. i teach in specifically trans affirming high school. we have gender support plans and gender wardrobe. with my second graders i had to make sure that my lesson was appropriate for that age group. i
taking aim area. rob marciano times it out. developing story overseas tonight. a deadly bomb attack at a café in st. petersburg, russia. a popular pro-russian military blogger killed. dozens more injured. new details coming in. at the same time, early calls on russia to release the american journalist detained in moscow. antony blinken hold rare talks with his russian counterpart demanding both eva gershkovich and retired marine paul whelan be set free. one day after being released from the hospital, pope francis celebrates palm sunday mass in st. peter s square. authorities in south carolina exhume the body of a teenager eight years after his death. the case now considered a homicide. coming under renewed scrutiny, the week of the alex murdaugh trial. the images coming in of freight train derailment in montana. at least 25 cars jumping the tracks. moments ago, the new ncaa women s basketball chance crowned on the court. and america strong tonight. an opening day field of dr
wednesday morning, everyone. don lemon, alongside poppy harlow and kaitlan collins here. it is wednesday, november 2nd. we re so glad you chose to wake up with us and tune in. a big news day too. it is a big news day. the big questions this morning, do politicians and their families need more protection after the attack on paul pelosi? capital police making a desperate plea. the second question this morning, what were those officers waiting for? we have exclusive and chilling 911 audio from a 10-year-old girl named chloe. she called police, begged for help during the uvalde school m massacre. our third question is whether or not former president barack obama had help push democrats over the line. he s campaigning with arizona katie hobbs. finally, this is an important question, what would you buy first if you won $1 $1.2 billion, meaning after you picked yourself up off the floor. the power ball jackpot soaring to record highs. we ll get to all of that. but first,
cbs manuel bojorquez is otside the courthouse. america prepares for a potentially severe flu season. tonight, the outbreak at one high school that had more than half the students out of class. and the fight over gas stoves. cbs ben tracy explains why climate change has major cities like new york and los angeles banning the kitchen appliance. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this friday night. we want to begin with what is now becoming all too common another mass shooting in america. this time in a quiet suburb of raleigh, north carolina. police are searching for a motive in the shooting rampage that killed five people. the 15-year-old suspect is in critical condition in a north carolina hospital. the victims include the suspect s own brother, a 16-year-old high school student, and a 29-year-old off-duty police officer. the other victims, all women, range in