Putin. meanwhile, you have a rhetorical escalation with putin accusing ukraine of genocide, saying that the russian-speaking population in the east is being persecuted. but there are more worrying signs tonight, david, i just got off the phone with the u.s. official who said russia is still building up those troops, despite that virtual meeting with vladimir putin. and questions about what he s signaling with these new words. martha raddatz tonight, thank you. when we come back here on a thursday night, travis scott now breaking his silence about that concert tragedy, killing ten people while he was on stage. what he says he didn t know. and then the powerful images right here in washington tonight, as the nation honors tonight, as the nation honors bob dolewith less asthma? with dupixent, i can du more..beginners yoga. namaste. .surprise parties. aww, you guys. dupixent helps prevent asthma attacks. .for 3!. .so i can du more of the things i love.
Suggesting that the recent concert tragedy had something to do with satanism. so that looks to you like the gates of hell, the way that i guess they designed that? that seemed like it wanted you to go to the other side and so it did seem, you re kind of going down, you know, dante s inferno. the various stages of hell. there s flames kind of in the front there and you re kind of going deeper and deeper. oh, we re going deeper and deeper. jesse, if you re looking for the gates of hell or dante s inferno, check out the studio just down the hallway and listen for the maniacal laugh. be careful though, the doorknob might be hot. the one thing we know for sure about kamala harris is we should all be very, very grateful to have here because she s historic for reasons no exever explains, but there s a lot we don t know.
86% of the new york city police department have receives their shots. only 130 people have been put on leave without pay. but about 6,000 civilian officers have requested exemptions from the mandate. commissioner dermot say telling jim sciutto the department is han handling each of those cases individually. it comes from the uniform and civilian members that have not requested an acome decision and put on leave without pay. it is manageable. we re able to move resources around, stop training in certain areas, do things behind the sce scenes, we re trying to get those people back to work. cnn, new york. and back to our breaking news. that horrible concert tragedy in texas. 13 people remain hospitalized following last night s deadly stampede. at the astro world music festival in houston. eight people were killed in the incident. two of them just 14 and 16 years old.