vow to fight on. we won t give up bakhmut. we will hold on until the very last. glory to ukraine, death to the enemies. and the wagner boss in an audio message, acknowledges the ukrainians aren t budging. translator: the ukrainian army is throwing extra reserves into bakhmut and trying to hold the town with all their strengths. tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers are repelling the attacks. bloodshed increases every day. reporter: wagner mercenaries are the spearhead of the invasion force. he claims they re making progress but often lack the ammunition to advance. translator: i will say a system needs to be worked out. i hoch that this system will start functioning soon, and we will be getting ammunition regularly. reporter: the u.s. and ukraine say the attrition rate among wagner s assault groups, often made up of prisoners recruited from russian jails, is as high as 80%. but the media channel is trying to convey how wagner is helping the convicts. in this film,
from just about anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. cnn presents a max original heaven s gate tomorrow at 10 on cnn. live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. the 19 sixties had the chicago eight today. nashville has the tennessee three. the state lawmakers, all democrats. targeted by republicans for leading a loud but peaceful protest on the house floor in that legislature. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people, including 39, year old children dead. to expel lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who is white, kept her seat by just one vote. that fact has only added to the anger in tennessee and across the country. cnn correspondent isabelle rose saleh s joins us with more details as well, it seems like there s already a path potentially to return both of these lawmakers to their seats. so what? what happens next? jim it is very much within the realm of reality here
at the u. s army base, fort campbell have confirmed the crash of two blackhawk helicopters, and it s believed that the incident could be deadly. we re told the aircraft went down in nearby trigg county around 10 p.m. wednesday night local time these photos from the crash site just into us now they were obtained by wkd z radio. in kentucky. the helicopters were with the 101st airborne division , and we re told that they were doing routine training when the crash occurred as of now, the official status of the crew members is unknown, but in a tweet earlier from kentucky governor andy beshear, he said that fatalities are expected and asked for prayers for those affected. stay with cnn for the very latest will bring you any updates as they come in. it s been four days since three children and three adults were killed in a school shooting and for many in nashville, tennessee , and across america, that pain and recovery will last a long time. the mayor says that the city s heart is
away the body of the one victim who was killed in this ramming attack that took place earlier this evening here, and you re absolutely right. it s right on the promenade here in television, and there s some social media video out there of that car that you see there as well. that s now laying there overturned just racing down that promenade at some point, getting off course and then flipping over several times before just coming down on its roof, the latest that we have from the authorities here is that there are seven people who were injured in this four of them being tourists. three as you mentioned come from the united kingdom, and one is from italy. some of them are moderately injured and some of them lightly injured. some actually tried to flee to a hotel in the area to seek help. but as you can see, this is a wide cordon here now in the center of till aviv. there s a lot of ambulances. obviously a lot of police cars here as investigators are obviously still working the
are not meant. to go through these types of tragedies. american people go through this again and again, this time for innocent people killed nine innocent people injured and yet another community in horror. today after a mass shooting in louisville, kentucky, after a lone gunman opened fire in his workplace, a bank the governor himself, says he knew one of the victims killed. plus emergency moves by the justice department and a drug manufacturer today trying to hit the brakes on the ruling from a texas judge, appointed by trump that effectively would ban the availability of a popular abortion pill. and classified pentagon documents leaked online , revealing top secret information on allies and adversaries. this leak different from previous ones because of how fresh the intel is speak with the house intelligence committee chairman who was said to be briefed on the matter just moments ago. welcome to the lead . i m jake tapper. it is another emotional day we start with our nati