they arrivinged at their home. plus an update on mr. pelosi s condition, and new information about the suspect s potential motive. it s the final sprint to the midterm elections and both parties bringing out their closers, and their last-minute concerns in some of the key races. plus new incluclues on where economy stands as we pay more for just about everything and the warning about an economic possible downturn next year. and the flu virus, and why they re urging everyone to get the vaccine now. it s saturday, october 29th. where does the time go? thanks so much for waking up if us. good morning, boris. good morning, amara. always great to be with you. we begin with new details emerging about the violent attack on house speaker nancy pelosi s husband. yeah. sources say the assailant tried to tie up 82-year-old paul pelosi after breaking into the couple s san francisco home and attacking him with a hammer. he underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and o
jobs in and live in day in and day out. paul pelosi, he is the husband of speaker pelosi, was violently assaulted during an early morning break-in by an assailant who was reportedly searching for nancy pelosi. a source telling nbc news that mr. pelosi was home alone when the attacker broke in. the attacker was armed with a hammer. paul pelosi reportedly suffered multiple blows to the head and is currently in surgery. the speaker was in washington, d.c. at the time of the attack. as for the assailant, he is in the custody of the san francisco police department. officials say he will face a number of charges including attempted homicide. the motivation for the attack is still under investigation at this hour, but a look at his digital footprint reveals he posted a whole host of conspiracy theories including anti-establishment ideas as well as anti-semitism and vaccine conspiracies. this attack is raising questions about the security of our lawmakers and their families in this i
the white house says that israel has formalized a plan to briefly pause fighting in parts of gaza each day. meantime, israeli forces say they ve captured a hamas stronghold in gaza. in just moments we ll take you live to israel. and the republican presidential candidates minus the front-runner donald trump hold a fiery debate filled with lots of low blows. and it seems they re still struggling to come up with a winning message on abortion. plus, the labor movement puts more points on the board. what we re learning about a tentative end to strikes in hollywood and on the vegas strip. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. we begin this afternoon with the israel-hamas war. after weeks of voicing opposition to a ceasefire in gaza, today the white house announcing that israel is formalizing a plan to allow for four-hour-long pauses each day, windows designed to allow palestinian civilians to evacuate nort
Distracted from the central political headline of this story. that years of republican propaganda and trump fueled fascism led 42-year-old david depapp to break into nancy pelosi s san francisco home, with the intent to harm her. today he will likely be charged with the attempted murder of the speaker s husband who was in the home when he allegedly invaded it. he smashed his way in, a man on a mission, and confronted paul pelosi, but looking for nancy. according to the ap, citing a person familiar with the situation. pelosi told the intruder that he had to use the restroom. he was engaging with him, trying to hold him off, and in the restroom, that s where paul pelosi s phone was charging. that s when he dialed up 911. when police arrived, depap attacked pelosi violently,
Currently have certainly in the wake of all of this political rhetoric, the ratcheting up of political rhetoric, and certainly unfortunate incidents like this. sunlen serfaty, thank you very much. let s get expert analysis from juliette kayyem. she s aformer security assistant. so far officials have not explicitly said this was politically motivated, but given what we ve seen from the suspect s social meadia and wha we ve heard from some of his really lative relatives, it s certain that it possibly was. i think the police are not stating the obvious simply because they re trying to make a legal case. to say so would probably put it under federal jurisdiction, so they re going to be careful about how they describe it.