new tonight, gop congressman madison cawthorn stopped for bringing a loaded handgun into a tsa checkpoint. and it s the second time in just over a year that airport authorities have stopped cawthorn with a gun. he is avoiding cnn s questions tonight when we tried to ask him about the incident. jessica dean with the details on that. jess qua ka, good evening. walk us through what happened. how did cawthorn get caught with a loaded handgun. let s go back to earlier this morning, about 9o 9:00 a.m. eastern charlotte april. tsa officials say that s when they discovered a loaded handgun in congressman cawthorn s luggage. he did say it was his. he claimed responsibility for it. and that he was cited for bringing that handgun through tsa. that is standard operating procedure for them to offer a citation. but as you mentioned, he had no comment to us earlier today when
former leader for corruption. the nobel laureate led myanmar for five years. madison cawthorn has done it again. cited for trying to bring a loaded handgun through an airport checkpoint in charlotte on tuesday. it is the second time in just over a year that airport security has stopped cawthorn with a gun. five, four, three, two, one, zero. ignition. and liftoff. this morning, four nasa astronauts on their way to spend five months at the international space station. it includes astronaut jessica watkins who will become the first black woman to live and work in space for an extended period. this mission s crew is also one of the first equally comprised of men and women. fascinating to see there, that launch. those are 5 things to know for