people spoke about him. donald trump talked endlessly about what a great football player he was and how he would be great candidate and a great u.s. senator and oh, did i mention what great football player herschel walker was? walker himself would make appearances at events and shake hands and occasionally read a short prepared statement about how much he loved america. but even cnn ran a headline last fall that said, herschel walker is often seen and seldom heard. toward the end of last year he went on a radio show. it was friendly territory. conservative host asked walker to let loose on senator warknock, his democratic opponent. and in that moment, we found out exactly why walker s campaign tried to never let him speak. he brings up voting rights, the john lewis voting rights bill. what do you say about rafael trying to push this during this time to try to what i call federalize elections? you know what s sad about that? you use the name of a great man to bring up some
hour. a violent assault the man accused of attacking house speaker nancy pelosi s husband expected to be charged with multiple felonies today. cnn has learned he had zip ties, duct tape and hammer during that attack. we are live in san francisco. plus, deadly crush, more than 150 people killed after being caught in a suffocating crowd at a halloween festival in seoul, south korea. what we are learning about the two americans who are among the dead. next hour the supreme court set to hear arguments in two cases that could upend how college admissions are decided by eliminating or restricting race-conscious programs. let s begin this hour with the latest on the have eggs into the violent a talk on paul pelosi. veronica miracle is in san francisco, melanie zanona is on capitol hill. veronica, the suspect set to be charged today, what more are we learning about what happened in those early hours at the pelosi residence? reporter: good morning, erica. the details that we re
welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: happy halloween. dana: happy halloween. bill: tomorrow is all saints day. i was in my office and i never wore it before. dana: we didn t coordinate well today. bill: maybe i should have gone black. i m bill hemmer good morning. kemp and abrams trying to persuade undecideds, making last night s debate a critical opportunity for abrams, one last chance to change the perception that momentum is not on her side. kemp holds a sizeable lead in the polling ahead by about eight points. here is what they had to say last night. people s salaries are not going up but not fast enough to keep up with joe biden s inflation. he refuses to defend us but defended herschel walker. he doesn t mind being involved in the medical choices of women in georgia. dana: trying to tie him to herschel walker in the senate race. aishah hosni ahead with a deep dive into the georgia senate race. jeff mason from reuters join
what matters to them and what doesn t. that moment of clarity is right now. last night, contrary to what many were led to believe, americans across the country propelled democrats to what may have been the most consequential political achievement for the democratic party since the day joe biden was elected. voters injected rocket fuel directly into the party s blood stream. electing democratic candidates and advancing their key policy positions. in kentucky, the governor s race once projected to be a very close one was not. incumbent democrat andy beshear won by a 6-pointrgin. in a state that donald trump won 6 points. in virginia, nbc news projects democrats retain control of the state senate and actually flipped the house of delegates. now governor glenn youngkin, the conservative poster boy generating national buzz, will wrestle with two chambers controlled by the democratic party over matters of gun safety, voting rights and the issue that defined that race and others, re
as of tonight, we know very little about most of the victims. now, information is still trickling in, but we still don t know literally anything about the victims in atlanta, beyond the fact that four asian women were killed. today, the atlanta deputy police chief said they were still in the process of notifying next of kin, fair enough. they also said that nothing is off the table in the investigation, including whether the murders were indeed a hate crime. we do know more about the four victims in the cherokee county shooting. they are delaney ashley yaon. paul andre michelles, age 54. a woman who was 49, and dao yo fung, who was 44. we also know ortiz was injured and is hospitalized in intensive care. out of all the victims, we know the most about delaina yan, she was visiting the spa with her husband who was in a separate room and wasn t injured. she had multiple children including a baby born just last summer. michelles was a handyman at young s asian massage, according