a fiber freelancer. former vice president mike pence joins wolf blitzer, cnn primetime tonight at nine. top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. great to be with you, jim. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean. and any moment now, officials at fort campbell in kentucky will be giving everyone an update after two blackhawk helicopters collided overnight, killing nine u. s service members that is, according to an army official. we re standing by for that, and we ll bring it to you live as soon as it happens. the governor among those who will speak their plus russia has now arrested an american journalist, it says on suspicion of espionage. even draskovic, a reporter for the wall street journal, detained in a small town east of moscow, the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter, the kremlin says. he was caught red handed, refuses to offer any details their track record on this kind of thing. begs a lot of questions. we re going to have details ahead. we begin this
after the wall street journal reporter who is based in moscow , was arrested on suspicion of espionage. cnn s jeremy diamond standing by at the white house. first we go to cnn senior international correspondent matthew chance who is in moscow. i wonder matthew how russian authorities are describing this at this point. well they re absolutely kind of committed to the idea that this individual 11 girls, covic, 32, year old reporter for the wall street journal, was not was up to no good. the foreign ministry saying that he whatever he was doing in yekaterinburg, russian city, 1100 miles or so from moscow. it was nothing to do with journalism within the past hour or so, a court in moscow where he s been arraigned, has designated his case top secret, it s revealed in a press statement. that goes. covic has . um denied guilt. he hasn t accepted that he is guilty of