fox news top of the hour, three big stories topping the news. china s military carrying out massive blockade drills around taiwan today. china announced three days of drills on saturday after taiwan s president met in california with house speaker kevin mccarthy. protests expected in tennessee today where the state legislature is back in session for the first time since it voted to expel two democrats for their role in a chaotic gun control protest. a at the detention of erin gershkovitch. more on those stories throughout the hour. first. someone got shot. dana: the army sergeant convicted in the death of a black lives protestors in 2020 says it is self-defense but facing a possible sentence of life in prison. texas governor abbott is calling for the state to grant a pardon. that is developing now. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i know you had a good weekend. excellent. great easter weekend, thank you. i m bill hemmer
Yesterday, Fighting Away tears, called a close friend. Today im hurt. And im hurting. And i know so many people out there are as well. Another investigation into the who and the why. Another set of questions, like why did a 25yearold Bank Employee bring horror to his own workplace . Why did he live stream it . And why was his Weapon Of Choice an ar15, like so many other shooters before him . And now another conversation about gun violence and reform. A conversation well continue in just moments with Congressman Morgan Nicardi who represents louisville The Big Question once again, will this cycle end the same way as all the rest before with nothing changed whatsoever also this morning, back in action, one of the two black tennessee lawmakers expelled from the state house last week is back at work. There he is, justin jones. How soon could his other ousted colleague be back there with him . And the race to keep a popular Abortion Pill on the market, the doj now appealing a controversial
room. whoever next to me got shot. blood is on me from it. neil: all right. it s happened again. this time in louisville, kentucky. the scene of another mass shooting, this one at a bank. police just identified the gunman as 23-year-old connor sturgeon. an employee at the bank. the shooting leaving four dead and nine injured including a police officer remains in critical condition. the shooter was also killed at the scene. we re learning the shooter was live streaming this and the investigation is on going. today s shooting come two weeks to the day after a mass shooting in tennessee that left six people dead. fast and furious developments. we re on top of it. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s go to nate foy with the latest developments and what happened in louisville today. nate? the louisville mayor calls this a targeted attack. the 23-year-old gunman opened fire after 8:30 a.m. it happened in old national bank in downtown louisville. police say four people were killed. n
years of precedent and overturn roe versus wade, it was far from the final battle on either side over access to abortion health care in america. among independent voters, democratic voters and large numbers of republican voters, it s been a political spark that continues to jolt and potentially reshape our politics the power of the courts assault on a right supported by a majority of all americans is only exacerbated by the right s ongoing assault on access to reproductive health care the gop s war on women s reproductive freedom reached a new crescendo on friday night in the form of a ruling from a right-wing federal judge who was hand picked to make a decision that would further eliminate access to reproductive health care judge matthew kacsmaryk ordered the 23-year long fda approval of a drug called mifepristone be put on hold in every single state. it s one half of the two-drug regimen used in medication abortions. he gave the government seven days to appeal his ruling w
lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. there in nashville. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people dead, three adults and 39 year old children. two expelled lawmakers. jones and justin pearson are black. laurie johnson, who is white, kept her seat by a single vote. jones and pearson have called for protesters to return to the capital tomorrow, when the house is back in session, so let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel i guess. first of all, if you can tell us do we expect those protests and materialized ? might they be as big as we were seeing? at the end of last week as they were huge, and the nashville city council doesn t appear they have the votes to get jones back in the statehouse. jim the passions don t seem to be tampering down . we are expecting a day of action is what has been organized on social media with folk