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start with an arrest of historic proportions. it's the first time an american journalist has been detained by russia since the cold war in 1986 the year after i was born wall street journal reporter evan gersh co ceviche. was arrested and is now in custody in moscow on accusations of espionage. he covers russia, ukraine and the former soviet union for the paper. in a statement, the wall street journal said it vehemently denies the allegations from the fsb and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. espionage ...

Night again. that's all part of the investigation as we wait to find out more on on what led to this horrible crash overnight in kentucky. yeah i'm sure those families will be looking forward to the results of that investigation. oren liebermann from the pentagon. thank you so much. let's get some expert analysis here from cnn military analyst retired u. s air force. colonel cedric leighton joins us now, colonel. thank you so much for being with us talk to us about these assault helicopters and the kind of routine training that likely was underway at fort campbell when the crash took place. ye...

These statements that we've seen have been referring to this simply as a detention, the white house and state department has not gone as far to say, wrongful detention. that is a determination and a process of this currently underway over at the state department, but certainly there are still many more questions about how this all unfolded as it marks just another tension point with russia. i did want to also note that korean jean pierre was asked about the ninth service members that were killed in kentucky and very quickly, she said that the president's heart goes out to the families of those...

Begins. evan gives covic is arrest comes as tensions between the united states and russia are already at a high given the war in ukraine. cnn's arlette signs joins us live from the white house and our lead detentions of other americans in the past have led to lengthy negotiations. what are we expecting to hear from the white house today? well beyond and boris president. biden has been briefed on the russian detention of that wall street journal reporter evan gorski, which, but so far we have yet to hear from president biden directly on the matter. we have heard from top spokespeople here at th...

Thing could happen to them. of course, we'll continue to keep covering the story came dogger and david sanger, thank you so much. the vatican says pope francis is progressively improving after spending the night in the hospital with a respiratory infection. the 86 year old tweeted out this morning i am touched by the many messages received in these hours and i express my gratitude for the closeness and prayer. cnn's delia gallagher joins us now live from rome. delia bring us up to speed on the pope's condition. so boris we just received in the last few minutes. the evening update from the vati...