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
world. i m kim brunhuber. this is the final weekend before the critical midterm elections in the u.s. we ll tell you what big names are focused and who seems to be resonating with voters. tornadoes are wreaking havoc in southeastern u.s. at least nine touched down in texas. we ll have more in a few minutes. and a crowd sourcing campaign like you ve never seen before, how people in the world are helping ukraine in its war with russia. the january 6 investigation, the u.s. president s domestic agenda, abortion rights, voting rights are all on the line as americans prepare to vote tuesday in the midterm elections. candidates across the board are pulling all the stops in the final week of campaigning. president joe biden will be in illinois with a message on lowering prescription prices and shoring up medicare. and then he ll head to pennsylvania. the president sounded optimistic. here he is. i know you always ask me how are we doing. we re going to win this time around
candidate who doesn t want to commit. the lead starts rile now. with just over three weeks to go to the midterms, early voting begins in a key state that entire country is watching. herschel walker with a new admission today and the republican who wants to be arizona s next governor indicates she might not be interested in the actual results. plus, kamikaze terror, kyiv comes under attack from drones that russia is getting from iran. a pregnant woman killed. could this change how the u.s. gives support to ukraine. and stopped on a mission to kill. a serial killer suspect in california arrested, what ware learning today about his past and how the police finally got him. hello and welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper and we begin with our politics lead. the latest poll of polls shows democrats and republicans in a dead heat for control of the house of representatives. early voting kicked off today in the critical swing state of georgia. democratic s
can even rebook. but just looking at just look now at the never ending line of people on your screen right now, snaking through atlanta s airport at the southwest counter. passengers are being told to expect even more delays and cancellations. the travel nightmare has caught the attention of the transportation department and investigating if southwest could have better handled the cancellations. the president of southwest pilots association tells cnn that a meltdown like this has been brewing for some time. weather was just the tipping point. we have cnn correspondents nick valencia and gabe cohen standing by. and let s start with gabe at baltimore washington international which is one of the worst effected airports. gabe, describe for us how bad things are where you are and how many more flights are grounded today? reporter: well, the situation seems to get worse and worse for southwest passengers. the airline canceling roughly 62% of their flights today. close to 2500 o
the coming days and weeks, eeks who will monitor all the keywe match ups, all across the country, including pennsylvania, where the socialist bernie loving trut trust fund brad who never worked a day in his life, hoodie john fetterman. he is now refusingfe tdermo debe his opponent, world renowned opp surgeon, washington outsider dr nooz. now early voting in pennsylvania, it starts in two weeks. the people in the commonwealthek of pennsylvanis. a, they need answers to all of his insane radical positions that are tru truly to the left of bernie sanders and after his catastrophic stroke, we wish he him the best health. it does not appear thatt appe fetterman is capable of debating, much less servinart f. as a us senator. we have all those details coming up tonight. plusl those , the political weai weaponization of our justice system has never been has n more apparent. in a moment, we reev going to will bring you shocking new revelationbr news abouttion the apparent hunter biden