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
until then, i ll send it back to you, guys, from the bottom of the world. all right. the top of the hour on cnn newsroom, good afternoon, everyone, i m bianna golodryga. i m victor blackwell. we re beginning with another dangerous close call involving a commercial airliner on a u.s. runway. the faa is now investigating. so here s what happened, monday night in boston logan airport, a jetblue flight and a private jet reportedly came within 565 feet of colliding. just a weeking in burbank, california, a mesa airlines had to abort its landing because a southwest flight was on the same runway. there was a close call between a fedex carg honolulu. days before that, aiines flightt of a delta flight at jfk in new york. this is all taking place as president biden s nominee to lead the faa sits down for his confirmation hearing and it hasn t exactly been smooth sailing for him. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us now. pete, if confirmed, he clearly has a lot on hi
correspondent jonathan breaking details the latest we had know right now, live from our west coast news as we await that update from police. for several hours this morning we all wondered what the moment i have was author this brutal attack. now we know forces telling him it does appear to have been politically motivated, the sale and chanting where is nancy? 82-year-old paul pelosi was beaten with a hammer. he suffered blunt force trauma to his head and body although we understand he is expected to make a full recovery and as you look on the right at a helicopter shot of the pelosi house in san francisco, we understand that the fbi and the u.s. capitol police are now assisting the san francisco police department into the investigation into which the sale at broke into the back of the house. speaker pelosi was not there at the time. she was in washington, d.c. but the big focus this morning has been motivation and we are getting all these indications this was perhaps the
capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, also with us, frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. he is also an msnbc national security analyst. ryan, what do we know and not know about the attack at this hour? reporter: well, the biggest open question right now, jose, is motive. there doesn t appear to be a lot of clear answers right now as to why paul pelosi was targeted inside his san francisco home early this morning. we do know that the attack was violent, and it was enough for him to be rushed to the hospital. he is in the hospital now and the spokesperson for pelosi s office says that he is receiving excellent care and is expected to make a full recovery. the speaker herself, though, was not in san francisco at the time. and of course, jose, this comes against the backdrop of an increasing number of threats directed at members of congress and their families. capitol police put out a report over the summer that said there s bee
with a hammer. he was a 42-year-old man, nbc news is reporting, according to sources, depeppi was in fact looking for the speaker herself, shouting where is francy, where is nancy. it is the same chant that some rioters on january 6th said when they broke into the capitol. pelosi s husband paul was in the hospital. her office says he should make a full recovery. but will our politics? joining me now from outside the pelosi home in san francisco is nbc s jacob ward, we also have nbc s ben colins who is with me on the set. he s going through the social media profile. we have nbc s ryan nobles, as well, at the capitol and former secret service special agent charles marino, he is here with all of the analysis and the context, he served under lee presidents to assure individual and family safety. joining me now is nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter as well. we will have him in a moment. i m sorry. let s go to you at the scene of where this happened. we heard from off