start with an arrest of historic proportions. it s the first time an american journalist has been detained by russia since the cold war in 1986 the year after i was born wall street journal reporter evan gersh co ceviche. was arrested and is now in custody in moscow on accusations of espionage. he covers russia, ukraine and the former soviet union for the paper. in a statement, the wall street journal said it vehemently denies the allegations from the fsb and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. espionage charges in russia can carry prison sentences of up to 20 years. court has ordered 31 year old gorshkov itch to be initially detained until may. 29th the white house says the state department has been in direct touch with the russian government at any moment. now we expect his attainment to be addressed at the white house press briefing. of course, we will take you there when it begins. evan gives
idf. they are being examined on a medical basis right now before they head to hospitals and will be greeted and met by their families. john: as all of this unfolds, negotiators are working around the clock to secure another ceasefire extension as hamas still holds more than 150 people hostages somewhere in gaza. sandra: america reports hour two begins right now. i m sandra smith un-new york. john: john roberts in washington. good to be with you on a busy wednesday. hearing from families of hostages just freed describing the traumatic conditions that their loved ones had to ensure during 51 days of captivity. one of those family members joined us in our last hour. they couldn t raise their voices, they were often made to watch things that they should never see that should have never happened, that they were held at gunpoint, they didn t have a bed to sleep in. you don t know if they were warm when they needed to be or cold when they needed to be, if they were seeing
night again. that s all part of the investigation as we wait to find out more on on what led to this horrible crash overnight in kentucky. yeah i m sure those families will be looking forward to the results of that investigation. oren liebermann from the pentagon. thank you so much. let s get some expert analysis here from cnn military analyst retired u. s air force. colonel cedric leighton joins us now, colonel. thank you so much for being with us talk to us about these assault helicopters and the kind of routine training that likely was underway at fort campbell when the crash took place. yeah boris good with you, and but these are very tragic circumstances, of course. so this kind of training happens all the time. it s very routine for blackhawk helicopters at fort campbell and other installations to be engaged in all kinds of training missions. they operate both in daytime and at night in this particular case , they were, of course, operating at night using night
us convince them we re doing everything in our power. granted we re a citizen liaison network. at the end of the day that is what task force pineapple is. not a single member of task force pineapple are on the ground. we re using afghan allies, amazing commandos, trying to take care of them, keep them safe, honor the promise to bring them here. lawrence: i wish i had more time, brother. ironic talking about a plan, the united states government, department of defense, state department didn t have a plan. thank you very much for what you re doing, brother. thank you for your service. lawrence, my honor. i appreciate you guys having me on. operationrecovery.org. lawrence: thank you, will? will: thank you, lawrence. turning now to the headlines, u.s. navy declares five sailors dead days after their helicopter crashed off california s coast. their names have not been released. it was conducting routine training off the uss abraham
China said Wednesday a flight by 16 military aircraft over hotly contested waters off Malaysia was routine training, after the Southeast Asian nation accused Beijing of breaching its sovereignty.