top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. the fbi is searching for four americans assaulted and kidnapped in mexico. we are getting new video of the attack into cnn but we want to warn you, it is disturbing. you can see people being loaded into the back of a pickup truck by armed men. it is unclear if they are americans. according to the fbi shortly after the group of u.s. citizens drove across the border friday, the car crashed with another vehicle and they were taken at gunpoint. authorities believe that they were not the intended targets. the u.s. ambassador to mexico said an innocent mexican citizen was also killed. cnn rosa flores is following this for us. rosa, what are you learning and make of the mexican president and authorities saying these were not the intended targets? reporter: you know, the president of mexico saying these four americans were actually in mat morore mexico to purchase medicine, which is something peo
ahead of today s history-making arraignment set to begin at 2:15 p.m. eastern the case, of course, stemming on alleged hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels. the indictment will be unsealed later today. there are about 30 of them. and just like yesterday, from west palm beach, here to new york, every moment of trump s four-mile trip from trump tower in midtown to the courthouse in lower manhattan is almost certain to be exhaustedly documented however, as soon as trump enters that courtroom, it is going to be a whole different story overnight, the judge presiding over the case ruled that no cameras will be allowed in the courtroom during the proceedings. but cameras are not trump s attorney joe tacopina made the plans abundantly clear overnight, signaling the legal fight to come. we ll be pleading very loudly not guilty before the judge and then we ll go from there there is zero, zero chance where donald trump is pleading to anything here. you are at th
rocket attacks in 24 hours as the military steps up its assault in ukraine. our reporters are here to cover all of the latest developments and we start there. nbc s richard engel is in dnipro, ukraine, this latest barrage of missiles, give us the latest we know about what s happening on the ground there. reporter: so ukrainians are shrugging it off. they so far say that the russian offensive, which was launched about two weeks ago, is not shaping up to be as devastating as province, the head of ukrainian intelligence earlier today said the russian offensive appears to be of such low quality that some field commanders don t even know that it has begun, that there has been intense activity from the russian side around bakhmut where we have been reporting over the last couple of weeks, but that in other areas, the russians are running so low on ammunition on artillery shells they are now in an ammunition conservation mode. so, yes, they are still able to launch rockets at unde
moment, with just 13 days until midterm elections it is one of many developments that continue to shake up races in central states. we will focus on their impact tonight and in pennsylvania the debate certainly made a mark as fetterman admitted just minutes ago the aftereffects of his truck made speaking difficult at times. my doctors, the real doctors and i believe, they all believe that i am ready to be served. i didn t hear you say that you would release your full medical records, why not? you have 30 seconds. again, my doctor believes that i am fit to be serving, and that is what i believe is where i am standing. republican, mehmet oz making headlines as well with this on abortion. i want women, doctors, local, political leaders, leading the democracy that has always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. the question now, what will pennsylvania voters make of what they saw and heard? we will have real a
cnn s chief national affairs correspondent reports on the debate faceoff that s making supporters of john fetterman nervous. the spotlight on pennsylvania intensified. a day after a debate between john fetterman and mehmet oz sharpened the stakes in the battle for control of the senate. i had a stroke. he s never let me forget that. the question is not what oz thinks of his rival. obviously i wasn t clear enough for you to understand this. but whether voters believe fetterman has recovered from a stroke in may and should be elected to a six-year term in washington. i don t think he has recovered from the stroke. jan welsh was watching closely and said she found fetterman s performance embarrassing. i had questions about oz earlier, but after listening with him against fetterman, it s definitely oz. but craig said he was turned off by what he saw as oz picking on fetterman. do you think he s healthy enough to be a oh, my. he gets healthier every day.