leaders rare and public back and forth over controversial judicial reform plans. good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin this morning in kentucky, where two blackhawk helicopters crashed overnight. officials say they went down and trigg county, which is just north of the kentucky tennessee state border. the crew was flying a routine training mission at the time. the army has just confirmed several casualties. we don t have an exact number yet. this photo from wk dz radio shows flames from the crash. here s what one witness who lives about a half a mile away from the crash site saw and heard. two helicopters came over pretty low and all of a sudden, soon as i got older house, something loud banging everything shut down just all of a sudden, so we joined the truck came over here. that s what we ve found two helicopters so still waiting for more information from the army about how many people were on board ea
we ve found two helicopters so still waiting for more information from the army about how many people were on board each of those helicopters. and how many casualties they expect no residential areas were affected by that crash. okay. now to other breaking news this morning, a journalist working for an american newspaper is under arrest. right now in russia. let s get right to cnn s sound. abdelaziz live in london , someone we know evan gershowitz from the wall street journal, is the reporter here. he was a guest on this show several months ago. what can you tell us? so this is just breaking. so forgive me because we re just getting new information in. but what we understand from russian state media is that he was arrested on espionage. suspicion of espionage. i want you to read the statement from the fsb, the federal security services that was published in state media just a few moments ago. it reads quote the illegal activities of the correspondent of the moscow bureau of the america