to get out of another s way. the two threw punches, then tumbled down a moving escalator. the suspect was charged with assault. another chilling scene. a man viciously pushed onto subway tracks over the weekend in the bronx. good samaritans thankfully rescued him with second to spare. the suspect is still on the streets in that one. this one yesterday, the suspect has a special place in hell. a 48-year-old man died after he was shoved in front of an oncoming train during rush hour in queens which means you don t have a lot of time to save somebody. the tragedy happened when the victim accidentally bumped into another rider, triggering a fight between the two, according to police. and look at the numbers. transit crime in new york city, up by 41%, compared with last year. new york city mayor eric adams insists it is not what it seems. well, what is it? dealing with actual crimes, those eight homicide, and dealing with the perception of fear that people are feeling. that s th
happening now, breaking news. kevin mccarthy trying to seize the momentum right now in the fight for the speakership. the house is preparing to return to session at 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight, after two very dramatic votes saw the republican leader flip more than a dozen hardliner holdouts coming up just short of a majority. the country marks the second anniversary of the january 6th insur re insur insurrection. president biden honoring the defenders of democracy today, including several police officers brutally attacked while holding off the mob at the capitol. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get to the breaking news. the momentum in the speaker s race swinging heavily toward house republican leader kevin mccarthy. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us live from capitol hill. i understand you are getting new understand.
elect a speaker since the 1850s continues to play out. he has not yet reached a deal with the senate, mccarthy remains optimistic. lawmaker reportedly even making more concessions to hard line conservatives, some say they still will not support him. sandra: we will likely know a whole lot more as the minutes go on here. we are watching it with you. some mccarthy allies are acknowledge never enough compromise for some hold-outs. warren davidson is backing mccarthy s bid but more than four never kevin lawmakers who will never vote for him. we will have more with the congressman-elect, davidson. he is in front of the camera right now, we ll get to him in just a moment. john: fox news live team coverage, martha will join us with more perspective on the speakership fight, and chad pergram kicking things off this afternoon, live from capitol hill and here we go for a 12th time. here we go again but also some changes. we indicated earlier this morning kevin mccarthy was going
the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow. still don t know why 9 am wasn t a possibility, more now with day three of trying to get speaker, that s fine. we re gonna go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, of course, republican leader, kevin mccarthy, has been enduring a c series of stinging defeats. now losing a total of six rounds of voting. in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight, well there s no deal yet, the emphasis on yet, there s a lot of progress that has been made in talks with some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. it s possibly now paved the way for him to become the speaker. of course, it seems to be far from certain, knowing that there seems to be at least 20 who have not budged in many a vote at this point. his most strident opponents are vowing again tonight, they are going to block his bid. i want to go now to cnn s melanie zanona who s on capitol hill
while the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow, we still don t know why 9 a. m. was not a possibility and what could not be a day three of trying to get a speaker, but that is fine. they ll go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, and of course, republican leader kevin mccarthy has been enduring a series of stinging defeats, now losing a total of six rounds of voting in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight that while there is no deal yet, and emphasis is on yet, he says there s a lot of progress made in talks of some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. this possibly now paves the way for him to become the speaker. but of course, that seems to be far from certain that there seems to be at least 20 that have not budged in many a vote at this point. now, some of his most strident opponents are vowing tonight that they will go to block his bit. i want to go to cnn s melanie za