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sanctions over the war in ukraine are hurting russia s economy. the senior correspondent mike tobin is live in kyiv with more. mike? trace, another update coming from russian news agencies. gershkovich has a hearing on the books now scheduled a week from tuesday. so far no u.s. representative has been able to get in the yale to see gershkovich. the wall street journal said private lawyers got to see him. the u.s. ambassador in moscow had a meeting with the deputy minister. not much movement came from the meeting. gershkovich is the wall street journal reporter taken into custody and accused of trying to obtain classified information about a russian arms factory at the direction of u.s. officials allegedly. he was taken to moscow where he s being held in prison. denied access, u.s. officials don t have good insight to his condition. i wish we did. we still haven t been able to get consular access. that s an issue that we bring up through our embassy in moscow. i ....
rick reichmuth on if the weather will be holding up. americans get to take to the road and the skies, but not without some trouble along the way. to los angeles, we ll find christina coleman at l.a.x. christina? hi, neil. fortunately there s been no reports of any massive flight cancellations on delays today. good news, because it was a much different story during the winter break. air travel days ahead leading in to easter weekend matched prepandemic levels with many people taking to the skies or hitting the roads during spring break. the f.a.a. forecast more than 51,000 flights for today. those numbers are expected to drop slightly tomorrow. then increase by a little more than 6,000 between saturday and tuesday. many passengers told me that they felt confident that they would get to their destinations on time. were you worried about delays? no. i had no problems whatsoever. i was worried about it but didn t happen. we had built in time to prepare for that. j ....
Stricter gun laws after last month s deadly shooting in nashville. president biden called the expulsion shocking, undemocratic and without precedent. that is the story of friday, april 7, 2023. as always, the story goes on. i ll see you midnight on the east coast. your world starts right now. and they re off. americans out for the easter holiday and passover by road and by plane. what could be a preview to the upcoming summer travel season. signs of trouble from a shortage of air traffic controllers that could cause travel chaos in the air to gas prices spiking that could make things worse on the grounds. we re all over it with christina coleman at los angeles international airport and how things are shaping up. jeff flock in chicago on the gas prices that keep going up. ....