giddy up. the producers were right, that is quite some video. thank you for being with us thank you for being with me, you can sleep in tomorrow. yay. at 9:00 cnn news central starts right now. arrested for threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president. a man crashes a u-haul into gates right outside the white house. new details this morning, including video that seems to show a flag with a swastika and we just learned the man s identity. back in court, evan gershkovich has now been wrongfully detained in russia for nearly eight weeks. his case today is back in front of a judge. what s in question today and what it means for his freedom. this is cnn news central. a man is under arrest this morning for crashing a u-haul into barriers right in front of the white house and we are getting chilling new details about what he appeared to have with him. officials say at about 10:00 p.m. the truck drove into security barriers on the north side of lafay
checked the vehicle and found no explosives inside that vehicle, so people were then allowed back into the hay adams hotel. again, new information on the suspect, identified as 19-year-old sai condula of chesterfield, missouri. what we can also tell you is that police found inside the truck a flag that appeared to have a swastika on it, a black backpack and a roll of duct tape. there was a witness who observed the vehicle hitting this barrier multiple times, alexander garcia, here is what he told the media last night. it s a u-haul truck coming on h street and then he tried tried to run into the white house. and then he tried the first time and then went to the second time. now it is right over there, right in front of the white house. reporter: right. so multiple hits on this barrier according to that witness and according to police. he hit the barrier, backed up and probably hit the barrier a
cnn s brian todd is right next to the crash site. brian, i understand there is now a name to go with this suspect. reporter: that s right, john. this coming to us from the u.s. park police just moments ago. they have released the name of the suspect, he is identified as we believe his name is pronounced sai condula 19 years old from chesterfield, missouri. that information coming to us from the u.s. park police. setting the scene, this is where this occurred, we are 200 yards away from the white house according to witnesses and police, the vehicle pulled up here, there are scuff marks on the curb, oil absorbent sand and other things laid down after oil spilled out of the truck there. it hit this barrier multiple times and there was concern in the minutes immediately following the incident there might be explosives inside the u-haul truck and for that reason that hotel there, the famous hay adams hotel was briefly evacuated but then the fbi