start with an arrest of historic proportions. it s the first time an american journalist has been detained by russia since the cold war in 1986 the year after i was born wall street journal reporter evan gersh co ceviche. was arrested and is now in custody in moscow on accusations of espionage. he covers russia, ukraine and the former soviet union for the paper. in a statement, the wall street journal said it vehemently denies the allegations from the fsb and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. espionage charges in russia can carry prison sentences of up to 20 years. court has ordered 31 year old gorshkov itch to be initially detained until may. 29th the white house says the state department has been in direct touch with the russian government at any moment. now we expect his attainment to be addressed at the white house press briefing. of course, we will take you there when it begins. evan gives
nashville metro police say shot through the doors of the covenant school in a calculated plot. before being neutralized and killed by officers, the former art instructor named maria column in said. for the last year, hale had grieved online over the death of a girl who used to play basketball with her. and calling me also told cnn. it was around this time that he ll wanted to be referred to as he him and go by the name aiden. call me says that hale was apparently suffering now. police have yet to release a motive for the shooting. they re still investigating that going through writings and videos and messages sent by the shooter. but no one person was hails target, they say it s still not clear exactly why hale attack the elementary school. as of right now, we don t have any indication that there was any problems at the at the scol cou8 years old and still living at home with her parents, but we can t confirm any type of problems at this time. we want to take you to nashville
the nashville school shooter, school work or home. this is we learned investigators believe audrey hale had some kind of weapons training before gunning down 39 year olds and three adults. plus a stunning new filing in the dominion lawsuit against fox news, newly revealed emails show, fox news chief executive told staff not to fact check trump s election lies because it was quote bad for business. what about what s good for journalism? just a question and then a parent complaints and now a florida school district is reviewing in 1998 disney movie about ruby bridges, integrating a new orleans school. we re talking with the movie screenwriter. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start today with our national lead in just a few hours from now the city of nashville will come together for a candlelight vigil to honor the three children and three adults gunned down at their school earlier this week, and first lady jill biden, a teacher herself, is also
old audrey hale hale had just gunned down 39 year old children and three staff members. a warning. what you re about to see is disturbing. it begins with officers, injuring the covenant school after receiving the first call at 10 13 am. three happening. one more. let s go. metro police. mm. i mean, you know me. i don t know where he is. police door. bathroom, bathroom, small bathroom. next. let s go. door door with me with me. hold the door. yeah. next. this. open it. i got it. i got it. let s go. right now. let s go, go right cover left! cover luck, right. let s take this with him this. no that s locked. take this story. take this store . take it . it s upstairs. sounds like something. i don t know. right? personnel, pbs. that is chilling video. cnn s amber walker is in nashville and emma emma, before we talk about this heart stopping footage. we know that national police just gave an update in the last hour. what did we learn? we just heard from the chief of police from the
latest and that obviously supports what they told us this morning, which is that the general situation of the pope has been improving that he rested well last night. his rooms are just up here behind me. it s a bit dark. i don t know if you can see them, but they re the top floor has about five windows there where he resides. they said he was able to eat breakfast, read a newspaper and even do some work. so obviously the vatican also trying to reassure people that the pope is well, certainly these few more details. tonight that he has a bronchitis. of course, we know that he had respiratory difficulty in the past few days, which caused him to come here yesterday to the gemelli hospital. busy week coming up for easter week, starting this sunday on palm sunday, so we ll have to see how the pope progresses exactly when he will be let out, but certainly reassuring news this evening. from the vatican, boris bianna. yeah all those details are indeed reassuring. delia gallagher. thank you. an