five hostages, including a child. more on the standoff, how this played out. also developing as we come on tonight, the massive fire, a recycling plant. the images coming in now. authorities now urging more than 2,000 people to evacuate tonight. we have late reporting. the defense secretary tonight answering tough questions about the damaging leak of highly classified pentagon documents. what those papers reveal about russia. what the papers reportedly indicate about arc. terry moran reporting tonight. the new turn one week after former president trump pleaded guilty to 34 felony counts in new york. why the manhattan da tonight is now suing one of trump s biggest allies in congress. and abc news now learning the da has received multiple death threats. also the debate over the abortion pill. tonight a federal appeals court. that decision expected within days on whether to block or uphold a texas judge s ruling that would take effect by the end of the week, suspending fda appro
august 21st, an intelligence firm noticed the unusual presence of russian strategic bombers on site, spring break supersonic bombers designed to carry nuclear weapons. you re seeing the satellite imageries on your screen right now. then just days ago, on septembei intelligence spotted three more russian strategic bombers, t tu-95s. prior to august, there were no strategic bombers. now, as of this week, there are at least seven. ukraine is well within the range of both bombers. in related news, the deputy of the head of intelligence, determines there s a high risk of imminent risk of tactical strikes on ukraine. how could you going to lower the temperature, prevent global nuclear war? that s the only question that matters. our leaders, though, have no answer instead of calming tensions, they seem to be deliberately provoking russia. today joe biden once again accused vladimir putin of blowing up his own pipeline. asked me earlier about the pipeline. let me say this. it was a
these are the images coming in. a huge column of black smoke filling the skies, residents urged to evacuate tonight. tonight more than 2,000 indiana residents urged to evacuate after a massive fire at a recycling plant. we re probably going to need to evacuate this park over here. fire is on the wood line. billows of thing, black smoke rising into the air. the national weather service releasing these satellite imageries showing the smoke in the sky. county officials saying reports started coming in around 2:40 this afternoon about the fire at this recycling facility, 70 miles outside of indianapolis. firefighters now battling the flames. concerned that the fire could spread, leading to evacuations within a half mile. the mayor stating, we have a serious large-scale fire. many units are on scene. please avoid this area if possible as it is dangerous. resdents outside the evacuation zone asked to shelter in place. we want even to limit their exposure to that black smoke and
august 21st, an intelligence firm noticed the unusual presence of russian strategic bombers on site, spring break supersonic bombers designed to carry nuclear weapons. you re seeing the satellite imageries on your screen right now. then just days ago, on septembei intelligence spotted three more russian strategic bombers, t tu-95s. prior to august, there were no strategic bombers. now, as of this week, there are at least seven. ukraine is well within the range of both bombers. in related news, the deputy of the head of intelligence, determines there s a high risk of imminent risk of tactical
it s the top of the hour on o on cnn news room. vladmir putin is expanding his attacks in ukraine. for the first time russian forces hit three key cities. one of them just 60 miles from the polish border which is part of nato. this is an explosion unleashed t an airfield overnight. russia has also ramped up attacks near the center of the country firing missiles at a kindergarten, an apartment building and shoe factory. the 40 mile long russian convoy has moved into new positions. pentagon press secretary says that s not necessarily a sign of progress. i don t want to make too much of the fact that there s satellite imageries talking about this convoy moving off