>> david: tonight, breaking news has become on the air, the indictment of former president donald trump, the first time a former president will face criminal charges in u.s. history. multiple sources confirming to abc news that the new york grand jury voting late today to indict donald trump to criminally charge him in the hush money investigation. the payment made to stormy daniels in the weeks before the 2016 election. prosecutors have claimed it was to keep daniels quiet about a sexual encounter she said she had with trump. what we are learning about the indictment, and his expected arraignment, reported communications already between the trump team and the secret service about how to bring the former president back to new york to face these charges and the reaction tonight, what former president trump told our reporter just a short time ago.

nine soldiers killed in kentucky, two black hawk helicopters crashed in a residential area during a nighttime training mission. the deadliest loss for our military in a single incident since 13 troops were killed by a suicide bomber in kabul in 2021. what we are learning about the moments before the crash and what witnesses say they saw and heard. martha raddatz with late reporting. in russia tonight a u.s. journalist charged with espionage, the first time since the cold war. the kremlin claiming he was caught "red-handed," "the wall street journal" reporter originally from new jersey facing decades behind bars if convicted to pleading not guilty in court. "the wall street journal" saying he is innocent, the white house saying the charges are the chilling 911 call audio released from inside that nashville school. a teacher in a closet in the art room with students calling for help. you can hear the children in the background, how the brave

teachers protected their students. the threat tonight of dangerous long tornadoes again in the same reason just hit affect 70 million americans on alert from the north all the way to the gulf and those states trying to recover from tornadoes just days ago. how this hits tomorrow and rob marciano tracking at all. also urgent evacuations in another fiery derailment of the u.s. of a. train carrying hazardous officials. there is also breaking news, the verdict just ended the gwyneth paltrow trial over that ski crash, what the jurors have just decided to pickle baseball's opening day, what we haven't seen in decades in this country, and america strong tonight, the adventure of a lifetime. two best friends 81 years old and what they are doing. their message for you right here tonight. ♪ ♪ >> from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is world news tonight with david muir. >> david: it's great to have

you with us on a thursday night and we begin tonight with the breaking news, multiple sources telling nbc news that former president donald trump has now been indicted by a grand jury in manhattan. all of this in connection to hush money payments paid to adult film actress stormy daniels in the weeks just before the 2016 election. the indictment is sealed it could be several days before we know what the charges are. the former president speaking with our reporter moments ago saying they are trying to impact an election. what else he said it just a moment here. this of course is unprecedented, donald trump is the first president's current or former ever to face criminal charges. a key witness in this indictment is former attorney and fixer michael. he's ahead in the republican polls and he vows to press on as he faces criminal charges and several other investigations as well. the special counsel investigated january 6th and the classified documents at mar-a-lago. in georgia, the investigation to

find the votes in a state joe biden narrowly won. all eyes on this manhattan grand jury and there indictment of a former president, the president has been informed tonight a senior investigative correspondent leading us off outside the courthouse in manhattan. >> reporter: i manhattan grand jury voting to indict donald trump making him the first president in american history to be charged with a crime, the investigation has been going on for years and involves a $130,000 hush payment to actress stormy daniels in the closing weeks of the 2016 campaign, the payment he initially said he knew nothing about. >> reporter: did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> reporter: the former presidents one time fixer and lawyer says he made the payment at trump's direction to silence her before the election. trumps legal team now acknowledges the payment but says trump was trying to protect his family, not his campaign.

trump says he didn't have an affair with daniels and he didn't do anything wrong. >> from the beginning it's been one which hunted phony investigation after another. >> in recent weeks the former president stepped up his attacks on manhattan district attorney alvin bragg warning of death and destruction if he is indicted and urging his supporters to protest. the nypd is stepping up security around the court in lower manhattan putting down barricades all in preparation of this very moment. erin krajewski the grand jury handed up this indictment. we don't know the charges at this point but what is next for the former president, what can the american people expect to witness unfold in the coming days here? >> that indictment remains sealed until trump remains for arraignment. they're going to have to work out of date, no date has yet been set according to a court

official i spoke with. i'm just off the phone with trump's lawyers who say they will fight what they call a political prosecution. the security is going to be increased in court and all over the city in preparation for potential protest which trump is called for. every member of the nypd has been told to report for uniform at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> david: it's still unclear what we will actually see from the president. >> we may not see much of him, whether there are cameras in open court is going to be up to the judge in real time. he's going to be processed, fingerprinted and even photographed. whether we see much of him in a court room, we're not sure. is a former president has his way, he may want all of us to unfold in public. >> david: all of this unprecedented. former president donald trump will have to come here to new york as we are discussing to face these charges.

let's bring in chief washington correspondent jonathan karl live in washington. we have never seen anything like this before. donald trump facing investigations in addition to this involving classified documents, january 16 may face state charges in georgia for interfering with the election there. pressuring authorities to find the votes after joe biden won that state narrowly. speak to the history made, something this country has never witnessed. >> reporter: we are truly in uncharted territory. it's not just that this is the first president or former president to be indicted but is also somebody who is currently the leading candidate for the republican presidential nomination. this criminal proceeding will be playing out against the backdrop of an active presidential campaign. trump has made it perfectly clear he would not be deterred from running if he were indicted. as you alluded to there are multiple other criminal

investigations. the two federal investigations one regarding january 6, 1 regarding classified documents both dealing with charges that are potentially significantly more serious than what he is facing in manhattan. >> david: now for the former president's reaction talking with our reporter a short time ago. i want to bring in our executive editorial producer, he covered the former president for years, his campaign in his presidency and you talked t to a moments a. >> he sounded relaxed on the phone and he said this is an attack on our country, he called it political persecution. he is an active candidate donald trump tells me they are trying to impact an election. >> david: no indication is going to stop now in fact he will use this as part of his campaign. in the meantime you have also learned the trump team has been in contact at least initial contact with the secret service. >> described as preliminary conversations with the secret service. security around mar-a-lago and

the process of getting him to new york. >> david: in the meantime i want to bring in our legal analyst tonight, professor kate shaw who was with us for all of these cases. this one unprecedented and i was talking with you earlier grip of the prosecutors looking at state charges here of falsifying records in relation to this hush money payments. here is the question for you if they try to connect this on the state level to violating federal election laws this would be untested, not an easy prosecution. >> i think this could be a novel legal theory but we have yet to see the indictment but we aren't sure what's in it. at the heart of this charge is filing false business records with intent to defraud -- that is a misdemeanor estates charge that is typically a misdemeanor but that become a felony if it's done in furtherance of another crime. the question becomes what might that other crime be? if it's a federal campaign finance crime, that is pretty novel. it's also possible there is

another crime and state tax crime, false records charge time to making records into a felony. that would be less novel and untested, more traditional state prosecution, we have yet to see the indictment. >> with moments left we could see this in days? >> i think very likely within days. >> david: our thanks to the entire team. much more later tonight on "nightline" ended the morning of course. the devastating crash of two army of the compass in kentucky killing all nine soldiers on board. here is abcs martha bandits. >> two blackhawks down nine soldiers dead, the helicopters from the hundred first airborne division were on what was called a routine training mission. routine military training is

inherently dangerous especially at night. all of the pilots and crew on this mission, five soldiers and one helicopter, four in the other were wearing night vision goggles which makes it more difficult to see especially peripherally as they crossed over the kentucky woods near a residential area just before 10:00 p.m. >> we heard a loud boom, all of us on the engines quit and everything was quiet. both of them had crashed. >> the debris was spread over a wide area, the army cannot confirm yet whether that two collided but that is likely what investigators will look at first. >> helicopters have big whirling blades that are like knives and when they cut into another helicopter it almost always ends in tragedy. >> all nine soldiers were based at fort campbell, teams were immediately dispatched to inform the families and an aircraft safety team has been sent to the

crash site to investigate. >> it's unlikely whether or had anything to do with this, it was 58 degrees, fair skies and clear visibility. >> david: martha raddatz, a horrific story. we turn now to russia, arresting a "wall street journal" reporter originally from new jersey at accusing him of being a spy saying they called him "red-handed." he faces of the 20 years behind bars, the white house: the charge ridiculous. >> tonight for the first time since the cold war, an american journalist has been detained in russia. he's been accused of trying to obtain classified information for the u.s. government. seen being escorted from a russian court today after being dumb at pleading not guilty. the white house because the allegation ridiculous. >> the targeting of american citizens by the russian government is unacceptable. we condemn his detention in the

strongest terms. >> russia's intelligence agency arrested evan gershkovich in central russia on wednesday. officials caught my claim he was caught red-handed collecting state secrets from the u.s. on russia's military-industrial complex. this man who says he was interviewed by gershkovich not long before that her as a reporter was looking at the stories relating to a putin ally and founder of the wegner mercenary group currently fighting in ukraine. "the wall street journal" says it vehemently denies the allegations. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. gershkovich has been working for the journal for more than a year, he's been a reporter in russia since 2017. >> u.s. officials say they have not yet been able to speak to as an. if convicted he could spend 20 years in prison. he will next appear in court ma. >> david: thank you.

back here in the u.s. and for the first time we are hearing 911 recordings from inside that nashville school including a teacher huddling with students in the closet of the art room. >> new chilling 911 calls reveal the desperation inside covenant school as gunshots sounded. >> you're still hearing shots? >> it sounds like they stopped at the moment. >> the call or a teaching assistant whispering, she's in the art room closet trying to comfort and quiet of the children with her. you can hear their little voi voices. one child asking. the alarm blaring in the background. his grandson in that art room hiding in the closet. >> the art teacher gathered them

up and she had them go in to the art supply room, so that his classmates were in there with him. >> then his teacher called 911. >> the funeral for the pastor's daughter hallie scruggs will be held at the church and her classmates will be buried tomorrow. >> david: we are watching the track of these potentially dangerous storm systems tonight 70 million americans on alert from the canadian border all the way down to the gulf of mexico. in those same states had with those deadly tornadoes just years ago. you and i both traveled that the storm zone and to think these families are facing this all over again. >> it also includes a blizzard warning across the upper midwest

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>> a historic day. for the first time ever in american president is indicted. local perspective on the unprecedented action against donald trump should >> plus, what is the investigation that is having an act on police service in antioch? >> dry skies today. i will let you know if this continues through the weekend. abc7news at 6:00 starts now. >> now from abc 7, live breaking news. >> something that has never happened before in america. a man who served >> let' this is historic. it is also tragic. >> this is the donald trump show and he will try to use this to his advantage. >> good evening. >> thanks for joining us. on tuesday donald trump is expected to surrender himself to the district attorneys office in new york.

he will be fingerprinted and a mug shot taken as anyone else would be. all of this the result of an investigation that has been going on for years. a lot of local reaction to the story coming. but first let's begin with faith abubey with this major story. >> the manhattan district attorney's office looking into whether trump falsified records to hide a 100 $35,000 payment to stormy daniels sort of forked actually before the 2016 election. trump's former attorney michael cohen says the payment was meant to keep the affair with the porn star quiet. trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. michael cohen already pleaded guilty to facilitating the payment and served prison time and a grand jury has formerly found enough evidence to determine trump was involved in crime. >> indictment within moments.

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