blast partially destroys russia s prized crimea bridge. also ahead, after months of legal sparring, the clock ticks for elon musk to close the deal on twitter. and a toddler miraculously rescued after his parents car is stolen with him trapped inside. you re in the cnn newsroom. a prized achievement of vladimir putin, an apparently target of his ukrainian tormenters. this right here is the exact moment the russian president suffered his latest blow in his war on ukraine, the blast from an apparent truck bomb knocking out three of the four lanes of the bridge that links russia to crimea, its annexed territory in the south. now a huge bottleneck chokes a critical supply route for putin s war in ukraine. ukraine hand sn t claimed responsibility, but it is celebrating it. ukraine will issue this commemorative postal stamp with a nod to the titanic. one senior ukrainian official couldn t ignore that the explosion came just hours after putin s 70th birthday. happy birthday
i m levy reiser in new york. a truly historic, chaotic, and tense night in washington, after four days and 15 rounds of voting, republican kevin mccarthy of california has been elected the next speaker of the house. it began at 10 pm eastern last night, with a vote that saw matt gaetz vote president instead of voting for mccarthy. that was a move kevin mccarthy seems surprised by, as it sunk the california congressman s latest attempts and made him lose that 14th round. tempers then spilled over at another republican congressman, mike rogers of alabama, appeared to lunch at gaetz, and a number member pulled rodgers back. it was then the gop moved to adjourn in order to try to come back monday to do it all over again, but the very last second, there appeared to be a deal reached between gaetz and mccarthy, and a 15th round began. finally, kevin mccarthy won the elusive speakership. let me close with this. i may not know all of you, some of you are new, what i hope one thing
democrats side. this election is about the biden agenda, people don t like high inflation, high crime, open borders. half of the democrats see, we are in the hunt to win. forget a majority, that constitutes a good night. we re going to defend our midstream democratic values against threats to our democracy, we re going to protect women s reproductive freedom and voting rights. we re going to get you cheaper prices because our candidates have real plants. they re going to move better than people think on tuesday night. we have an army of correspondents, everybody, throughout the country right, now covering the key races. including somebody here from right now it, it just a few moments. also the, south a disturbing line is taking root among the trump faithful. what do you think happened with paul pelosi? i think that s a crock of our friends at the good liars get into it with trump supporters at the weekend rally. here s what s already being spread about the attack
kevin mccarthy lost the vote 11 times. do not, do not just show up at the border. president biden with a message to migrants as he gets ready to see the crisis up close. and the wrong moves made by the accused idaho killer. what investigators secretly watched him do and how it helped crack the case. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. the house of representatives reconvening again just hours from now without a speaker and no known path to picking one. lawmakers have tried and failed for three straight days to elect a new leader. the longest that has taken in, get this, 164 years. will it be kevin mccarthy in the end? he s the choice of most gop lawmakers, but even after making major, major concessions to his hard right opponents, mccarthy can t seem to lock in the 218 votes needed to win. no, no, i m not putting any time line on it. i think we have progress going on. i think we v
tuesday night right here on fox, of course it s not just washington, control of statehouses across the country also in the balance on tuesday. georgia governor brian kemp and stacey abrams are making their final pitch this weekend. meanwhile, the republican candidate out in nevada, adam laxalt, and the incumbent democratic senator, catherine cortez masto, crisscrossing that state in the tight senate race. and up in new hampshire, senator maggie hassan trying to hold off a last minute surge from republican challenger don bolduc. we have team fox news coverage across the country, let s start with rich edson live in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, where the keystone state is shaping up as the center of the universe with fetterman and oz and mastriano and shapiro. man, you ve got your hands full, rich. reporter: yeah, you re only getting started there, eric. you know, now it s former president trump s turn. he was the subject of this rally in pittsburgh for much of it at least for jo