But first, were going to go live to texas where fox is. Griff jenkins is standing by. Griff, what can you tell us tonight . Hey, laura , good evening. I can tell you there is a sigh of relief in a lot of Pride Running through Border Patrol agents from coast to coast because oropesa was brought into custody by Bortac Agents. They are the elite units of. The Border Patrol. Theyre a unit hav based out ofl paso, but they have agents all over the place. Weector, i in the rgv sector, In Brownsville, about five hours soute clh of where cleveland, texas, where the murders happened and they werencerne concerned that oropesa initially was trying to get back to mexico. Obviously, having been deported some four or five times, being mexican nationals illegally present in the u. S. But what woe know about how it went down,n th im getting some details and well find out at the press conference. But what my sources are tellingl me is that about tim 615 local a in texas, they got a tip abouttm a residen
people from asking for help. we begin with breaking news from russia, where the kremlin claims ukraine tried to assassinate vladimir putin in an overnight drone attack. this video, purports to show an explosion over the kremlin. wait for you. it you see it in the middle of your screen. russia has provided no clear evidence to back up this claim. a spokesperson for ukraine s president told local media that kyiv had nothing to do with this alleged incident and called it an expected trick from our opponents. moments ago, secretary of state blinken was asked about this during a press freedom day event. i can t in any way validate them. we simply don t know. i would take anything coming out of the kremlin with a very large shaker of salt. let s see. we ll see what the facts are. it s hard to comment or speculate without knowing what the facts are. joining us now to take a closer look, chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, and military analyst, barry mccafrey, and dan d
closet. thanks to a at tip from the fb. that person is getting a reward. steve: that s right. casey stegall joins us live from cleveland, texas. the eyes of the nation were on texas and i understand that fbi tip line was ringing off the hook they had a lot of tips coming in yesterday. things moved rely fast when a tip came in about 5:15 central time. 6:15 yesterday evening in new york that the suspect may be hiding out in a house not actually far from the crime scene itself. and just within about an hour from then, a little bit more than that, 6:30 local time, he was taken into custody. cell phone video rolling as the fugitive was taken into custody by advisor tack agents those are highly trained yups of border agents also assisted by marshals and the texas department of public safety. 38-year-old francisco oropesa arrested without incident. his bond set at $5 million and he could have a hearing before a magistrate later today. everybody played a very, very integral part
russian state media is reporting that two ukrainian drones were flown toward the kremlin last night. again, this is coming from the state-controlled russian media with absolutely no verification at all from the ukrainians or anyone else for that matter, and there are a variety of reasons why a russian claim like this would be advantageous to them which we will get into in a bit. and russia is calling this, though, a terrorist attack and also claiming that it was an attempt to assassinate russian president vladimir putin. we have team coverage on this breaking news for you. nic robertson is in eastern ukraine, nick paton walsh is in dnipro, ukraine, and major general james spider marks is joining us as well. let s start with nic robertson. what else are you picking up? reporter: well, what we re hearing from the ukrainians is they re down playing this, saying this is a trick to be expected from our opponents. they re saying that russia is trying to use this event or purp
the address that we have, where this arrest took place tonight, is within ten miles of this scene here, where the murders took place, four nights ago. francisco oropesa has been booked into the montgomery county jail, which is the neighboring county where we are. he is being held tonight on a 5 million-dollar bond. law enforcement sources telling our josh campbell, he was found in a home there, hiding in a closet. we are expecting law enforcement officers they are just now starting to gather. we will talk here as they start to make their way to the press conference here that is expected to begin any second. hopefully, get more details as to when this could happen, let s listen in to, this is the public information officer for the fbi. he s helping out the photographers here at the scene, the fbi special agent in charge the county sheriff is also over there in the wings. they ll be making their way over here shortly. this is a man hunt that has had more than 250 officers combi