nine soldiers killed in kentucky, two black hawk helicopters crashed in a residential area during a nighttime training mission. the deadliest loss for our military in a single incident since 13 troops were killed by a suicide bomber in kabul in 2021. what we are learning about the moments before the crash and what witnesses say they saw and heard. martha raddatz with late reporting. in russia tonight a u.s. journalist charged with espionage, the first time since the cold war. the kremlin claiming he was caught red-handed, the wall street journal reporter originally from new jersey facing decades behind bars if convicted to pleading not guilty in court. the wall street journal saying he is innocent, the white house saying the charges are the chilling 911 call audio released from inside that nashville school. a teacher in a closet in the art room with students calling for help. you can hear the children in the background, how the brave teachers protected their students. t
manhattan d.a. alvin bragg taking legal action agains republican jim jordan, and president biden s latest comments on his plans for 2024 let s take a look at some of the week s top stories the manhattan district attorne leading the prosecution of donald trump is now suing a to house republican alvin bragg filed the lawsui against judiciary committe chairman jim jordan yesterda in response to what bragg call a brazen and unconstitutiona attack by members of congres on an ongoing criminal prosecution. bragg has come under increased scrutiny to put it mildly by the ohio republican since it became lightly that the former president would be charged i new york city. calling on the game solved t testify before congress, jorda issued a subpoena last week, ordering a former prosecutor i the case to appear before th judiciary committee. in the new lawsuit, the de asked a court to block tha subpoena, arguing that it coul cause irreparable harm to th case if certain secret materia is dis
red flag laws as we mentione earlier. the shooter, as we mentioned yesterday, we release that h bought the gun just recently i the situation in my workplac shooting over a year ago in ou campaign office, where government entered our offic and fired six shots at me from close range, he had bought tha gun only a hour before h entered our office, and so maybe there s some room there. the other crazy kentucky law i that right now, that assault rifle that was used to kil five people yesterday, and use to fire on police officers who were coming heroically to th rescue will one day be turne over to the state and then auctioned off and could end up back on the street and used to commit another crime that is nuts i want to have the authority i louisville where we can destro illegal guns, where we can destroy confiscated guns, so the guns that are used t commit a crime i never used to commit another crime again and i understand that tha
might take a bit longer because there s a psychological component to this. but the real issue here is that once the air mobility provided by the c130 aircraft and blackhawk helicopters provided to the afghan fors and fixed wing and rotary wing attack aircraft, once their maintenance degrades, which will happen, because we re also pulling out the apparently 18,000 or so contractors that have kept their air force in the air, there s got to be some stop gap found for that, because once there is no longer anyone come ing to th rescue in the afghan forces realize that, you re going to see a rapid crumbling of the situation throughout the country. and i fear, as i did a couple of months ago, that we are con signing afghanistan to a very bloody civil war with a lot of implications in terms of refugees, loss of life fighting similar to what we saw, in fact, after the collapse of the post soviet afghan government.
extremely high which could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures. so that goes to the point of, well, if you pull out the employees then we don t know what to do next. so let s talk about possible rescues. can the power line começ to th rescue here? if they get the power line to the plant, could they get electricity working again and rescue the situation? reporter: you know, if there is one piece of good news in this just unfolding drama it is that they are close to hooking up a power line to restart those pumps to pour water not only into the reactor cores but into the spent fuel pools. but, again, we don t know how close they are to doing that. it s something that tokyo electric power company is not revealing at this hour. if they are 12 hours away, three days away. we don t know. but certainly that is one solution and it would be a very good solution. whether you can really use these