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
developing in this shooting in louisville but we do know that five people have been killed, six more taken to the hospital. that from local authorities, the mayor tweeting about this. governor andy beshear is on his way to the scene asking for everybody to pray that hopefully the six people who were injured can pull through in this horrific shooting. police do confirm the shooter is dead. the call came in at 8:30 this morning and happened at a building that houses an old national bank location. multiple law enforcement agencies on scene right now. agents from the atf as well as the f.b.i. alongside local authorities and as you have told with some of the witness accounts, just an absolutely horrific scene developing in louisville. local media says a man with a long assault rifle opened fire on the first floor of the building at 8:30. police say an officer was on
university of louisville itself and the ball team. frankly, they ve done a great job. you find this all over the midwest, frankly, when cities have tried to revitalize themselves. a lot done through technology. you can live downtown, walk to an office, use an uber driver, work from home. it created revitalized urban centers across the midwest. dana: a lot of people found a great new home in mid-size cities like louisville, which is a beautiful place. shaken to the core this morning as 8:30 a.m. the shots started. we found out around 10:20 that the active shooter had been neutralized. the report five people killed. we aren t positive if one of those is the shooter. it would stand the reason that is the case. six are now in the hospital. we pray for their recovery and
nashville. north of where charles is reporting in the town of louisville, kentucky we expect a news conference any moment now. there is word of multiple casualties after a shooting that was either at or inside of a bank area or a bank itself. we re piecing this together. we haven t heard word about fatalities. we hope that holds up but we ll find out when police brief in a moment in louisville. dana: russia s arrest of a wall street journal reporting putting a spotlight on the growing number of americans being arrested by authoritarian regimes around the world to get concessions from the united states. benjamin hall is ahead with a look at what, if anything, can be done to get them free. bill: the biden team speeding up efforts to change the way americans drive. the strict new rules being pushed by the epa. plus this. rahm wins the masters marathon.
the community once they were able to neutralize the shooter. but in that follow-up question that the reporter asked, we learned that five have been killed and six are on their way to the hospital. so our prayers with them as they get to the hospital where no doubt they will get the best care they can possibly get in louisville. there is a ball field there, aaa and louisville influencinger museum near the ohio river where i-64 and 65 intersect. the goth of the city of louisville, kentucky. we ll bring you back there when police bring us more. dana: 11:30 a.m. another press conference. we ll follow it. first the gas stoves. then the light bulbs. now the administration is going after cars. the epa reportedly set to propose new rules on tailpipe emission standards in order to