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
espionage. and so they ve remanded him in custody in a pretrial detention center. we don t know exactly where, but probably here in moscow for nearly two months, until may, the 29th. and so that may well be the next time we catch a glimpse of this 32 year old american citizen. there s been a brief media scrum outside the courthouse where that decision was handed down. the lawyer who has been designated dated to defend evan gush covic came out and said, look, i wasn t even permitted access to the case. i haven t even been allowed to take part in the process. and so that does not bode well for the prospects of this young wall street journal reporter who now faces these very serious charges, which remember carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in a russian jail. mm hmm. all right, matthew. thank you for that reporting. i want to go now to jeremy diamond at the white house. jeremy, the wall street journal, which employs him,