82-year-old paul pelosi to make a complete recovery. however, it was apparently a very near thing, especially for a man of his age. tonight a spokesperson for his wife, house speaker nancy pelosi, second in the line of presidential succession, said mr. pelosi underwent surgery to repair a fractured skull and serious injury to his right arm and hands. she is now at the hospital with him. this is new video just in of her motorcade arriving. she was in washington when the attack happened. we learned that san francisco s police chief is expected to update the public soon and we will bring you any new information as it becomes available. this is what we know so far. law enforcement sources tell cnn he was attacked by a hammer-wielding intruder shouting, quote, where is nancy? and according to two sources familiar with the situation when the police got there the suspect who is now in custody and charged with attempted murder told him he was, quote, waiting for nancy. although pol
intentional. it is not random. we know that. we know that. we re learning more about the man accused of attacking the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi, details on both sides of the political divide. plus from gunfire to government buildings destroyed by fire, unrest in iran is intensified after yet another protester is laid to rest. we ll have a live report. and pediatric emergency rooms are being flooded with races of rsv. we ll take you live inside a st. louis hospital fighting the crisis. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the husband of u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi is recovering from serious injuries this hour after being violently attacked in his san francisco home. police say paul pelosi was struck with a hammer by a man who broke into the residence early friday. authorities still haven t determined a motive. but a source says the intruder was looking for the speaker. politicians from both sides from condemned the atta
work on this. we will get get back to reporting. for nor on the criminal justice and security aspects of this, cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, former d.c. metro police officer michael fanone who was badly beaten protecting speaker pelosi and others from the mob on january 6th, and also special correspondent jamie. andrew, you heard that report from whitney, new details coming in. what stands out to you about this attack? well, i mean, of course as you said, john, how lucky we are that mr. pelosi was as quick thinking and cool headed as he was to get 911 on the phone, to get that alert to the police officers to respond quickly. but you know the thing that really echoes back to me is something that we have known for quite some time, and it s that these dispossessed people who are motivated by anger and grievance, they react very strongly to these conspiracy
they posted this photo today with a message, almost there. sam s parents are both avid hikers. his father says sam has been training to take on el capitan every day for the past 18 months. i mean, it is incredible to see. look at that picture. such a little person about to achieve something so monumental and wonderful and so amazing that his mother will be there at the top. we will all be looking forward to that moment. thanks to all of you for joining jo us. you can find the latest episode of our show and podcast cnn.com/audio or, obviously, your favorite podcast app. ac-360 begins right now. the husband of the most powerful woman in government is recovering tonight from serious injuries after a potentially politically motivated attack targeting her at their home in san francisco. john berman in here for anderson. the first thing we should say is thank goodness doctors expect
trying to drill down on what this individual motives may have been to get as much specificity on that as they can, but they are also very focused on trying to uncover whether there are other people who may have known what he was going to do, maybe like-minded individuals who could be planning similar sort of things. that s always the first priority that law enforcement has after any sort of attack. they want to see if they can stop the next one, second one, the follow-on attack. they will do that by looking at this person s network in its entirety. so all the folks that he has been contacting either on text message or telephone calls or emails, people that he interacts with over social media. they wouldn t to look at his statements on social media and any other electronic devices he may have. there is a lot of work going on right now in the san francisco police department and also in the fbi and the capitol police. michael, you said the capitol police are understaffed when it comes t