good morning. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with breaking news out of california. paul pelosi, the husband of speaker nancy pelosi, is hospitalized, we have learned, after he was attacked inside their san francisco home. cnn s whitney wilde is joining us with some of the details. this is just unfolding as we are learning, some of the details, whitney, but so far what doe woo know and how is he doing? reporter: well, erica, it happened just two hours ago, 2:00 a.m., according to the speaker s press people. paul pelosi was attacked within their san francisco home early this morning. he is expected to make a full recovery. we have very few details at this point. notably though, the suspect is in custody. we re still collecting more information, erica, but certainly it is a very disturbing case, and we will keep on it. but right now, again, very few details. all we can tell you at this time is that paul pelosi was attacked early this morning in their san francisco home. th
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
the passengers and will comply with the investigation by civil aviation authorities in paraguay. of course they will look into why the pilots made this call. there is some conjecture out that said they didn t want to deal with emptying the airplane out in brazil and running up against their duty time, how much time they could stay on the clock. it is an interesting investigation about why the passengers were put through such a horrible experience. it is such an interesting point that you make there, pete, given the information that is available. always appreciate it. thank you. top of the hour here on cnn. i m erica hill. the breaking news we are following this morning. paul pelosi, the husband of nancy pelosi, hospitalized at this hour after being attacked with a hammer at the couple s home in san francisco overnight. we do have our correspondents and naums standing by. i want to begin with manu raju. we re hearing from the speaker s office about this incident.