people from asking for help. we begin with breaking news from russia, where the kremlin claims ukraine tried to assassinate vladimir putin in an overnight drone attack. this video, purports to show an explosion over the kremlin. wait for you. it you see it in the middle of your screen. russia has provided no clear evidence to back up this claim. a spokesperson for ukraine s president told local media that kyiv had nothing to do with this alleged incident and called it an expected trick from our opponents. moments ago, secretary of state blinken was asked about this during a press freedom day event. i can t in any way validate them. we simply don t know. i would take anything coming out of the kremlin with a very large shaker of salt. let s see. we ll see what the facts are. it s hard to comment or speculate without knowing what the facts are. joining us now to take a closer look, chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, and military analyst, barry mccafrey, and dan d
provided the following after the arrest. everybody played a very very integral part in the arrest and capture of this coward, bottom line is, we now have this than custody. he was caught hiding in a closet underneath some laundry. they effectively made the arrest. he is uninjured. and he is currently being taken to my facility in cold springs. in addition to being in the country illegally, authorities say he was convicted of a dui in january of 2012 which prompted his third deportation from the united states. he was also charged last years in unrelated crimes but unable to be find. turning to the end of title 42 next week the biden administration deploying 1500 active duty soldiers to the southern border with mexico. texas governor greg abbott blasting the order in a tweet, quote. biden says he will deploy 1500 troops to the border primarily to do paperwork and only for 90 days. this does nothing to stop illegal immigration. i deployed up to 10,000 national guard at the
the address that we have, where this arrest took place tonight, is within ten miles of this scene here, where the murders took place, four nights ago. francisco oropesa has been booked into the montgomery county jail, which is the neighboring county where we are. he is being held tonight on a 5 million-dollar bond. law enforcement sources telling our josh campbell, he was found in a home there, hiding in a closet. we are expecting law enforcement officers they are just now starting to gather. we will talk here as they start to make their way to the press conference here that is expected to begin any second. hopefully, get more details as to when this could happen, let s listen in to, this is the public information officer for the fbi. he s helping out the photographers here at the scene, the fbi special agent in charge the county sheriff is also over there in the wings. they ll be making their way over here shortly. this is a man hunt that has had more than 250 officers combi
but that is where in cnn s ed lavender is in texas right now. ed, what do we know about this arrest? reporter: well, we know this arrest took place in a small town of cut and shoot, texas, which is about 10 to 11 miles north of where we are here in the cleveland area of texas, which is about an hour s drive north of houston. so, in the four days that francisco oropesa has been on the run from law enforcement, he has not traveled a great distance. and i think what we have seen over the last couple of days with patrols in the area, there was always this inclination, this thinking, that this suspect perhaps didn t travel very far from this area, even though fbi officials were saying earlier today, they have been following every possible lead in connecting with law enforcement contacts here in the state and across the country and even across the border. because this suspect is a mexican national, that concern has always been that perhaps he was figuring out some way of getting
date on our breaking news tonight, the suspect in a horrible texas massacre is now in custody. what have you learned? francisco oropesa, he was on the run, of course, after being sussex to speculative killing five people, including a nine-year-old. after what wasn t really a dispute, but seemed to be one family saying, hey, do you mind shooting your gun on the other side of the house because we have a baby in their. trying to sleep. they tracked him down, they actually found him in the town called cut and shoot, texas, less than 20 miles from cleveland, texas. which was where this shooting happened. it s came from a tip to the public, where the fbi says tip from a public came in at 5:15 pm, at 6:30 pm, they had actually apprehended him, take a listen to officials on how they found the suspect. he was caught hiding in a closet, underneath some laundry. they effectively made the arrests, he is uninjured. he is currently being taken to my facility in cold springs. somebody g