a russian court found evan gershkovitch is guilty of espionage sentencing him to 16 years in a russian prison. the trial called a political stunt. more on this coming up in moments throughout the day. first there is this across the country breaking right now. >> we do not -- >> bill: it's a mess out there. the situation at airports around the world. so many people waking up to a major tech outage that happened overnight grounding thousands of flights and impacting banks and hospitals and media organizations and on and on the list runs down. it is friday, good morning, we're back in milwaukee for one final day. and the news is jumping. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: we don't have adjustable chairs. usually i can look taller. not today. we're thrilled to be with you all week today as we wrap it up. the issue stemming from a faulty update from microsoft systems looking at the outage. the head of the cybersecurity crowd strike says it is not a work of hackers. >> first and foremost to reinforce what you said it wasn't a cyberattack. it was related to the content update. as you might imagine we'

still gershkovitch faces up to 20 years in prison. media will not have access to him again until a verdict comes back. closing arguments set to happen tomorrow, bill. >> bill: let's get him home. nate foye in london on that story today. >> dana: president biden's covid diagnosis forcing him off the campaign trail as top democrats ramp up the pressure campaign to convince him to bow out. bret baier is here and breaking news coming from our colleagues other places, axios reporting top democrats believe that the pressure is ramping up so much, bret, that the president could actually get out of the race this weekend. >> yeah. >> dana: response this weekend i should say. >> i have had some conversations here with top democrats, names that people will know in the hallways and kind of nooks and crannies of this convention who put the over/under at five days to give the president time to do a dismount of some kind, a speech, a big event. but this is happening. it is going down the hill. the boulder is rolling. you start with chuck schumer and

take a look at gershkovitch today in court.od the proceedings and the sentence. he said he did. the 32-year-old is the first american journalist to be held in russia on espionage charges since the cold war. he was seen waving as well while leaving the courtroom. a source close to his family tells me they've been anxious for this sham trial to end. gershkovitch, as you mentioned, the "wall street journal" and u.s. government say he has done nothing wrong. president joe biden put out a statement saying she is pushing hard for his release adding, since the very first day of my administration i have had no higher priority than seeking the release and safe return of evan, paul whelan, former u.s. marine in custody there since 2018 and all americans held hostage abroad. russian prosecutors claim gershkovitch acted on behalf of the c.i.a. gathering information on a russian tank factory. the foreign minister said this week negligent achess for a potential prisoner exchange will happen in private and at the conclusion of the trial. so y