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
reiser live from msnbc headquarters in new york on a busy saturday evening. happening right now, a man hunt intensifying in texas for the suspected gunman accused of killing five people, including an eight year old. after authorities say that they asked him to stop firing his gun in his yard. the search underway right now for the suspect. we are following extreme weather coast to coast from heavy rain to snow to dangerous heat. while the midwest faces flooding from the mississippi river, a result of melting snowpack. we will get the latest from iowa. plus, president biden s reelection pitch. she is in the fear of maga republicans to court democratic donors. and a live look at washington where nerd prom is about to be underway. it is the one night every year where you could find the president, top journalists, and hollywood elite all in the same room. we will have a preview of the white house correspondents dinner ahead. we begin in texas where moments ago authorities delivere
for bret baier tonight. dramatic testimony in the hunter biden federal gun crimes trial today about the level of drug addiction that ensnared the president s son prior to his recovery. and this, the attorney general has a contentious hearing up on capitol hill over allegations he has weaponize the justice department. tonight, we also talk to the father of an american held hostage for 8 months now by hamas terrorists. but, first, breaking tonight, president biden facing intense pressures now signed an executive order tamping down on the move could partially shut down asylum processing southern border. new policy comes less than five months after the president said he had already done everything he possibly could about the border crisis. tonight, we ll show you another example of just how wide open certain sectors of the southern border remain as hundreds cross into the u.s. overnight without any resistance. we ve got fox team conch. bill melugin is in southern california wit
On this sunday night on alert. After almost two dozen american embassies are closed, the u. S. Goes further, tonight broadening its order in what some call the most serious Terror Threat since the 9 11 attacks. Boardwalk rampage. A california man faces a charge of murder after allegedly driving his car into a crowdof hundreds, killing a woman on her honeymoon and injuring 11 others. Up in the air. Yankees slugger add exrodriguez about to find out how long hell be suspended in baseballs highest profile scandal involving performance enhancing drugs. Back to school. Means a big tax break for many parents shopping for School Supplies, but not everyone thinks its a good idea. And fantastic voyage. As a group of american Treasure Hunters strike it rich, very rich, at the bottom of the sea. Good evening. Just a short time ago, the state department announced it will extend the closings of some u. S. Embassies in the face of a serious and credible, but so far unspecified, Terror Threat against
Well see you next funds dsh fox news. Im harris faulkner. It was supposed to be a fun day of Family Entertainment under the big top. Instead, we now know hundreds of spectators, many of them children witnessed an amazing and frightening scene in rhode island. In just a moment well share some images and they may be tough to look at. This is just a warning. We know 11 people have been hospitalized. Many of them the acrobats. One of them listed in Critical Condition. Now heres that video. It happened quickly, tragedy caught on camera. The acrobats performing as high as 40 feet above the ground,
plummeting, when an aerial platform gave way. One dancer on the ground seriously injured. Brian has more from our new york city newsroom. Nothing of this scale involving this number of performers has ever happened. 11 people were sent to area hospitals, nine with serious injuries. Oneperson is in Critical Condition. It all happened at 11 45 a. M. In providence, rhode island. The curtain drops, the