it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey rise e and we are following a whirlwind of breaking news this hour, including on capitol hill where norfolk southern s embattled ceo will be in the hot seat at a hearing that begins in moments facing tough questions from senators about the toxic train derailment in ohio. what he plans to say about the numerous derailments, cleanup efforts, and his promise to a community in fear from the toxic fallout. also breaking overnight, 81 senator mitch mcconnell, the longest serving senate leader ever is in the hospital this morning after a fall. what we know about how he s doing. and more breaking news overnight. a fiery onslaught across ukraine as russia launches its biggest missile and drone attack in weeks. reporter: these are targets that were largely civilian infrastructure, and he s trying to knock out the lights. he s trying to turn off the heat, and he s trying to do it all over the country. why there are new concerns about euro
whirlwind of action on capitol hill this wednesday morning. you could say it s a congressional hearing palooza on a slate of urgent topics from the origin of covid, the safety of air travel, the u.s. evacuation of afghanistan, and threats from around the world. that last topic is the focus of a hearing set to begin any second with the senate intelligence committee. we ll hear testimony from the nation s top intel chiefs including dni avril haines, cia director bill burns and fbi director chris wray. we can expect them to dive into a number of topics including new threats from china, questions about mishandling classified documents and concerns over domestic extremism. our team is monitoring this closely. meanwhile, in a different senate hearing, acting administrator of the faa is just moments away from testifying after weeks of disturbing headlines from the not so friendly skies, including a united passenger recently caught on camera attacking a flight attendant and threate
Sky 7 hd over the scene of a big fire in fremont this afternoon. You are looking at what is left of the building. And damage is serious. Good evening. Firefighters are still mopping up this fire. It happened at cnh enter praise, machine shop on pwoing terrace. Small side street near the mission boulevard exit off i 6 30 there on the map. Firefighters aived the building engulfed and there were 60 employees inside. All we are glad to tell you were acuated successfully. No one was injured. As bad as it was. Cnh proud component used in the Semiconductor Industry and today fire sent toxic fumes of smoke into the air. I think the reason we are seeing the heavy black smoke was all the combustible oil, flammable liquid and gases. Reporter heres what the side of the building looks like. Its completely exposed as you can see. Gutted because the roof collapsed. Company says it will try to resume operation just as soon as possible. Get the people working again. But yes, its devastating. You look a
but because of the intensity of all of the coverage of these close calls on the nation s runway, we may get questions in this hearing about that, he s still talking about the 737 max. by the way, as you mentioned, we ve also had this very concerning situation that happened on that flight from elway to boston, in which a man, a 32-year-old man suddenly got up, began ranting, and then attacked a flight attendant with a cutoff spoon stabbing that flight attendant multiple times. the flight attendant s okay. there you see the various passengers jumping up, tackling the suspect, putting him on the ground and tieing him down before finally landing in boston. we believe the next court appearance for 32-year-old francisco torrez is tomorrow. that s going to be in boston. these are federal charges interfering with the flight crew with a deadly weapon, and it could mean life in prison if convicted. so we ve got a lot happening on this beat today we re trying to stay on top of.