there are chilling new details about his alleged plan to take the house speaker nancy pelosi hostage and break her kneecaps. we re standing by for a live update from san francisco officials. also tonight, the final frantic eight days of campaigning before the crucial midterm elections. tensions ratcheted higher as federal officials now warn of a heightened threat to the election from violent extremists here in the united states. the homeland security secretary mayorkas joins me this hour. plus, growing misery in ukraine right now as russia steps up its attacks on vital infrastructure. much of the capital city is without water tonight and officials warn they re running out of equipment to repair the country s devastated power grid. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. the suspect in the paul pelosi attack now facing federal charges. prosecutors
the classified all those documents, with his mind. the january six committee is back. investigators ramping up for what will be a blockbuster hearing, four days away, while we wait for the big event there releasing video evidence every day. right to the middle of that legal parallel. laetitia james with a lawsuit that former trump lawyer, michael cohen, says could and trump s businesses. and he should know. he s the one who blew the whistle that got this whole investigation going. i will talk to michael cohen himself this morning. plus, senator tim kaine is here to talk about the highest stakes midterms in memory. the danger of this vladimir putin and more. also, it s banned book week. we will have a special edition of the banned book club today, with someone who works squarely at the rights of human rights democracy, and literature, velshi starts now. good morning i m ali velshi, and it is saturday the 24th. it is day 213 of russia s brutal and barbaric war on ukraine whic
americans, looking at 80% of the lower 48 with temperatures below freezing by the time we get to tuesday, almost 20% of us subzero. we are looking at records falling, maybe 250 or more records both daytime cold highs and overnight low temperatures that could fall as a result of this arctic invasion. now, this is coming kind of the first of the season, a lot of these places, especially in the upper midwest, are in the midst of their warmest winter on record. all of the red dots there, that s the difference between weather and climate. this is really their first cold snap, but the trend since december 1st has been a warm one. airlines are still digging themselves out from an intense few days of storms across the united states and more chaos is likely on the way. according to the tracking site flight aware there are more than 700 flights canceled within, into or out of the u.s. for today. more than 1,300 flights were canceled saturday and more than