reporter: we were going basically to the scene of where that missile strike took place last night on that residential building that killed several people because of course there is still a big rescue operation going on there. and we had just arrived at the scene, left our vehicles when the house in front of which our vehicle was parked was hit by a missile strike. it was a really heavy explosion, very close by. i would say maybe 40 or 50 yards from our location. so we then tried to go into a sheltered building. and as we were doing that i turned around, and you could see the second missile hitting the exact same area. we already know that there were people who were severely wounded on the ground there. it s unclear if and how many people were killed. of course right now there s a big rescue operation going on there. but i think it s important for our viewers to understand this area this was in, there was an active search and rescue operation in a residential area. and today
news. classified documents found from biden s time as vice president. what were they doing in a private office? the attorney general now asking a u.s. attorney to investigate. also breaking this hour, a major development in the doj s investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we are learning that special counsel jack smith s team has subpoenaed trump s former attorney rudy giuliani and more on what smith is zeroing in on. this is reporting that you will hear first outfront. and new audio revealing the dire state of russia s hospitals full of injured soldiers. an intercepted call that wasn t meant to ever be heard by you. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. and outfront tonight, the breaking news. classified documents from biden s time as vice president have been found at one of his private offices in washington d.c. this is according to a source. the documents were found by president biden s attorneys last fall, and then turne
snchts is there a deal for speaker in the works? i m erin burnett and we re out front . we re at a key moment in this totally grueling fight for speaker of the house. we re told negotiations are under way at this moment as an 11th vote is now under way. it appears that kevin mccarthy has lost, lost 11 votes. five just today. despite now the longest speaker contest in generations. as we re watching this, we re told that mccarthy support aernz his critics are at least talking. they ve been behind closed doors trying to hammer out a deal in an attempt to show some progress. but what might that deal look like? mccarthy already essentially given them everything that they want. he is promising votes on term limits, allowing just one member to force a vote to oust him, just one. and there are four in the never kevin camp. if there is just one more republican that mccarthy can t get the gavel without help from democrats. there is so much to get to tonight. let s go to capitol
a remarkable turnaround today for the republican leader. mccarthy promised progress, he promised it tuesday and promised it wednesday, promised it thursday. today we finally saw it. even as he failed on his 13th ballot. 15 rebel holdouts today switched their votes in favor of mccarthy, giving him for the first time this whole week more votes than the democratic leader hakeem jeffries, but despite this break in the republican resistance, six hardliners remain and congress people matt gaetz, bob good, andy harris, elle crane andy harris is not one of them. it s a different individual. in any case, the six are keeping mccarthy two votes short of the magic number needing needed to realize his dream of clinching the speaker s gavel. straight to chief congressional correspondent manu raju live on capitol hill. mccarthy won over much of the republican opposition today. he s still short of enough votes to win. how does he get the final two votes he nooesz? right now the top lea
added to the list of venues that are now welcoming migrants from the border. some record number of migrants, we might point out. startling numbers today for fiscal year that technically isn t even over yet, but we have broken all records in the process. let s get to it with peter doocy from the white house. hi, peter. neil, this afternoon president biden upending our understanding of his i immigration policy. more than a year he told us the migrants are coming from the northern triangle countries. that would be el salvador, guatemala and honduras. now he says that s not the problem anymore. there are three countries that are never there s fewer immigrants coming from central america and from mexico. this is a different circumstance. what is on my watch now is venezuela, cuba and nicaragua. the ability to send them back is not rationale. just before that in the briefing room, the white house claimed they were willing to engage leaders that were bussing or flying migran