leaders rare and public back and forth over controversial judicial reform plans. good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin this morning in kentucky, where two blackhawk helicopters crashed overnight. officials say they went down and trigg county, which is just north of the kentucky tennessee state border. the crew was flying a routine training mission at the time. the army has just confirmed several casualties. we don t have an exact number yet. this photo from wk dz radio shows flames from the crash. here s what one witness who lives about a half a mile away from the crash site saw and heard. two helicopters came over pretty low and all of a sudden, soon as i got older house, something loud banging everything shut down just all of a sudden, so we joined the truck came over here. that s what we ve found two helicopters so still waiting for more information from the army about how many people were on board ea
30th 2023 we have breaking news. an american reporter has been arrested in russia accused by russia of espionage. evan gersh covic works with the wall street journal and russia s main security agency now says in a statement. they claim he was collecting information about the country s military industrial complex overnight to u. s. army helicopters have crashed and kentucky police and military teams are on the scene. details still coming in also this prayers for pope francis days ahead of holy week. we re live in rome with the very latest on the health scare that has him in the hospital. also did a little disney magic calls some of governor ron desantis his power to go away the legal trick that puts the governor s new handpicked board that is overseeing disney, potentially in a bind some of the biggest names in tech, signing a letter hoping to slow progress and artificial intelligence. elon musk is joining dozens of tech leaders and calling the fast moving breakthroughs in a i
right now. breaking news. an american reporter has been arrested in russia accused by russia of espionage. we re talking about an american citizen who has now been arrested for what you can assume is doing his job. two black hawk helicopters crashing overnight in kentucky, sudden old house something pop loud, loud bang helicopters from 101st airborne division were on a routine training mission when the incident happened resulted in quotes several casualties. concerns for the health of pope francis as the 86 year old is hospitalist tests showed that he does indeed have a respiratory infection. it s unclear if the leader of the world s nearly 1.4 billion roman catholics will be able to lead the celebration of this weekend s pump. sunday mass and holy week ceremonies the vatican leading up to easter on april 9th. children are dying. there are six people are dead in that school, including three children, because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban. talk about protecting o
the beer college baseball season. andy we call it hot dogs. you might miss a whole inning now. all right, andy scholes. thank you. this morning continues right now. this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone. poppy is off this morning. we are here. we have a lot of breaking news for you. some major updates that are happening after russia has arrested an american journalist and accused him of spying. we re going to take you live to moscow. we ll have that in two army helicopters crashing in kentucky. the military is reporting several casualties, and we re expecting to get an update just a short time from now. evacuations underway at this moment in minnesota after a train that was loaded with ethanol derailed. and caught fire. start this morning with the major breaking news out of russia that we are following where a reporter for the wall street journal has been arrested . russia is now commenting on this, arresting this reporter and accusing him of espionage. the russia
wall street journal, was detained in a small town just east of moscow. the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter. the kremlin says he was quote caught red handed, but refuses to provide any more details. its track record on this sort of thing. does not inspire confidence ahead. we will have the latest from russia plus overnight, the army says. several people have now been killed this after two blackhawk helicopters crashed near fort campbell will be on the ground there in kentucky. also right now homes are evacuated in raymond, minnesota, after a train carrying ethanol derailed early this morning. we ve got new details for you on that. we re also keeping an eye on the vatican as pope francis is in the hospital undergoing treatment for a respiratory infection ahead. we ll have an update on his condition. but we begin this morning with that alarming headline out of russia . american journalist herskovitz is right now in russian custody after the wall street jour