there are chilling new details about his alleged plan to take the house speaker nancy pelosi hostage and break her kneecaps. we re standing by for a live update from san francisco officials. also tonight, the final frantic eight days of campaigning before the crucial midterm elections. tensions ratcheted higher as federal officials now warn of a heightened threat to the election from violent extremists here in the united states. the homeland security secretary mayorkas joins me this hour. plus, growing misery in ukraine right now as russia steps up its attacks on vital infrastructure. much of the capital city is without water tonight and officials warn they re running out of equipment to repair the country s devastated power grid. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. the suspect in the paul pelosi attack now facing federal charges. prosecutors
politicsnation. tonight s lead hanging in the balance. it has opened in 17 states. including barriers battleground states, where both parties have calls that call them they re heavyweights. to campaign two and a half weeks left to the midterm elections. top tier democrats have been on the campaign trail, courtesy of president biden that has been there. who was in pennsylvania, going into this weekend campaigning for john fetterman. as democrats try to hold on to their razor-thin majority in the senate. donald trump is stumping in for maga candidates in texas tonight. he faces a november 14th deadline. to be deposed before the january six committee. they congressional subpoena issue, coming yesterday. just hours after trump s former cub paid manager steve bannon was sentenced to four months in prison. for defying his congressional subpoena. this amid new revelations about what the fbi may have found, and it s august rate of trump s mar-a-lago estate. nbc news confirming that
applies the the ukrainians were responsible. a claim that ukrainian authorities have denied one senior official saying we are not a criminal state. fred pleitgen is in moscow. where do things stand on this investigation? reporter: a lot of this is still very much a mystery. at such dazzling time in russia as you have russia s special military operation, as they call it, in ukraine, going on. so there were, of course, someone in the pretty high echelons in russia who believe that maybe the ukrainians might be behind all this. but right now, it still remains absolutely unclear. the latest from the investigation is that they say the explosive yield of that charge was the equivalent of about 400 grams of tnt. they say the bomb was placed inside the car. they ve recovered some parts and sent it in for a forensic investigation as well. still very much unclear who might be behind all this. here s what we re learning. reporter: a car engulfed in a massive fire ball on a highway o
the body was and then, when they were just about ready to take her out, they said, you don t want to see this. she had been floating for three days. even to describe that, what does that feel like? it is horrible and i am an ex nurse. i don t want to see that. all right. let s cross over now to fort myers beach, where we are finding bring us up to speed on the latest. it is nighttime there. do these rescue and search efforts continue in the night even though there are challenges of working in the dark. no electricity and the perhaps the weather may not be cooperating. what is going on there? those search and rescue efforts are taking place 24 hours a day. we have been speaking with authorities who say they have people there during the day and at night. in fact, they have shared videos on social media, the sheriff s department, where you can see officers using lights. of course, it s not the same to do this at night as it is during the day. but the efforts do not
attack. las vegas the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. get down! get down! orlando three tense horrifying hours. hands up! it was unimaginable. all units. newtown 27 people lost their lives. 20 of them young children. a mass shooting at a fourth of july parade. a shooting in highland park, illinois. why? why? those horrific events and so many others like them have come to define the united states. the most recent figures show that every day on average more than 100 people are killed with a gun in america. in total, there were over 19,000 gun murders and 24,000 gun suicides in 2020. compared to other rich countries america s gun violence is on another planet. the united states has eight times as many gun homicides per 100,000 people as canada, 50 times as many as germany and 100 times as many as the uk. these countries all face the same challenges with mental health. they all have the violent video games. but other nations pale in comp