it was just a violent shake, i mean, violent shaking. major: search and rescue teams raced to find survivors trapped in the rubble, thousands tried to evacuate. aerial assaults on gaza intensify as israel prepares to withdraw some troops from the territory. unprecedented border crisis: 300,000 migrants were processed at the border with mexico in december, putting pressure on the white house to step in. tonight s eye on america,how one aerospace company is working to get more pilots in the cockpit. we need people to be able to get on the airplane, see someone who looks like them and say i could do that too. major: and finally, a class on media literacy showing students that seeing isn t always believing. reporter: is there any part fake, what s actually real?s- yes, all the time. major: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us on this first day of 2024. i m major garrett in for norah. we begin tonight with a powerful 7.5 magnitu
what more do we know about the attack? reporter: we re still learning more about the stunning attack. she was not there at time but her husband, paul pelosi, who was 82 years old was at the time. and what wae re learning is an assail aent broke into the couple s home and attacked paul pelosi with a hammer. the speaker s office put out a statement of what they believe has happened. they said early this morning an assailant broke into the pelosi resident in san francisco and violently assaulted mr. pelosi. the assailant is in custody and the motivation is under investigation. mr. pelosi was taken to the hospital where he is receiving excellent medical care and the speaker was not in san francisco at the time. we have learned that the speaker was in d.c. at the time. she s been traveling across the country raising money, appearing in campaign stops as we head into the critical midterm elections. sometimes paul pelosi travels with her and oftentimes he does not. he has his own
attacked this morning by an intruder who broke into their san francisco home. first word of this came from pelosi spokesperson drew hamel, a spokesperson for the speaker said that paul pelosi is in the hospital receiving treatment but is expected to make a full recovery. speaker pelosi was not at the home at time of the attack. the suspect is in police custody according to san francisco police. cnn s manu raju is following these breaking details coming in from capitol hill. what is the very latest that you re hearing? reporter: this is a scary and staggering situation that occurred, according to san francisco police, at 2:27 a.m. this morning. that is what we are learning that an assailant broke into the home of the pelosis through the back of the house and attacked mr. pelosi with a hammer. now, according to the speaker s office, mr. pelosi is in the hospital. he s received care and expected to make a full recovery. they give more detail in the statement from pelosi spokes
campaigning in chicago while governor ron desantis is speaking in florida after months of rallies and handshake lines and fundraising evens, candidates are no longer in a marathon. this is now a sprint. control of congress hangs in the balance. senate could be decided by three key tossup rates here in georgia and nevada and pennsylvania. there are other crucial swing states in play. but the importance of pennsylvania was on full display this weekend as three presidents past and present stumped for party nominees in that state. more than 40 million people have already cast their ballots outpacing early voting in 2018. let s take you to new york and florida where president biden will land soon to headline a rally and donald trump will be speaking in about an hour from now. jeremy diamond is in jonkers with the president. but let s start with kristin holmes in miami. the rally there is competing with events starring governor ron desantis. a one-time trump ally and a potential ch
trump s endorsement kari lake. here is how lake responded. i m sad that hobbs and her camp would try to pin this on us. it s wrong. it s so obvious what s happening. her own party is attacking her. she s trying to deflect her own abysmal campaign and the fact that, you know, nobody even knows where her campaign office is. the person who broke into it probably didn t realize it was a cam campaign office. it s really sad. let s get more on this. what s the latest? reporter: the latest we re hearing is the phoenix police is trying to figure out who is responsible, looking for a suspect. the hobbs campaign says they re taking an inventory and trying to figure out if any sensitive material was taken, but pointing out it s still quite early in their discovery that there was a break-in. what we re now hearing is that the video, those still images you re seeing of that man was from the internal campaign office, pictures that were taken from cctv, security camera footage from t