night. thanks to you at home for joining us. happy to have you with us here tonight. this is how the news unfolded today, in nashville. how the news unfolded on live tv in that city as it was happening. this was on the channel 4 local news in nashville. we anticipate this news conference starting at any moment. first official news conference where we can hear where investigators are in their investigation. some personal perspective on this as well. yeah, there s absolutely no words for what s going on today. i m actually at school, a shooting survivor myself, happened years ago, it was if eighth grade and all of this is flooding back flashbacks for me and what i went through with my classmates. i was actually in the hallway during break when the gunman opened fire shooting one of my peers and killing them and just after hearing the gunshots i just knew to run and i hid underneath the risers in my choir class and those minutes and hours of waiting to be released by pol
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom, and i m rosemary church. just ahead, russian warplanes accused of taking down the u.s. drone over the black sea. u.s. officials say it was reckless and unprofessional. we ll look at how moscow is responding ahead. and we re tracking two major coastal storms in the u.s. more flooding in california and a nor easter dumping snow on the east coast. plus, u.s. stocks appear to rebound following the collapse of silicon valley bank. this as federal authorities launch investigations into the bank s failure. live from cnn center, this cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, russia is disputing a u.s. claim that one of its fighter jets hit a u.s. drone, forcing it to crash into the black sea near ukraine. the u.s. military says russian warplanes intercepted the american surveillance drone on tuesday, dumping fuel on it, a
flying over the black sea. this is video of the type of reaper drone that went down. white house officials say that the russian move over international waters is the kind of thing that could spark a dangerous escalation between super powers. it could lead to m miscalculations between, you know, two militaries that are operating not obviously in ukraine together but certainly in proximity in the region. and we don t want to see the war escalate beyond what it has already done to the ukrainian people and so this is clearly this was inappropriate, unsafe, unprofessional conduct by the russian pilots. and salma abdelaziz is live in london for us. salma, russia and the u.s. have very different stories here about what happened. reporter: two very different narratives about what took place in the early hours of yesterday morning on the black sea. the united states says that russian fighter jets essentially reading between the lines harassed the united states drone. they say
it. i love it. happy valentine s day, buddy. you,s too. and thank you for joining us at home. happy valentine s day to all of you outle there. we have lots of news this evening regarding the special counsel s investigations into both trump s efforts to overturn theor 2020 election and into whether trump unlawfully obtained classified documents and obstructed efforts to uncover them. first the breaking news tonight in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. it concerns trump lawyer evan corcoran, who s been representing the former president in negotiations with the justice department over documents foundst at mar-a-lago. corcoran has already appeared before a grand jury but tonight nbc news confirms special counsel jack smith isrm invokin the crime fraud exception in seeking more of corcoran s testimony. in a sealed filing of a judge overseeing the grand jury nbc reports that doj prosecutors say they have evidence of some of trump sso conversations with corcoranti were in
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